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Bosses Given Power To Vet Posts And Messages In Landmark Ruling
- The Mirror UK, Thursday, January 14, 2016 7 AM
Workers were warned yesterday by the European Court of Human Rights that their employers can now legally snoop on private Facebook, WhatsApp and email messages. The landmark ruling came following the case of a Romanian engineer who was sacked after sending messages to his fiancee and brother during work hours using Yahoo Messenger on a company-owned device. ECHR judges sided with his employer, deciding bosses should be able to check during work hours what their employees are doing.
