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Employer breached worker's privacy by reading private messages sent through work account

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A Romanian worker's "right to a private life" was breached when his employer read private messages sent using his work Yahoo Messenger account. The European Court of Human Rights agreed with Bogdan Bărbulescu that previous court hearings had failed to address the issue correctly. A majority of 11 out of 17 judges said that Bărbulescu's right to a private life was infringed upon when his employer read through chat logs containing both private and professional content. Bărbulescu was fired from his job when his employer discovered his professional Yahoo Messenger account had been used to communicate with both his finance… [Continue Reading]

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