Can the boss now read your messages at work?
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A court decision gives employers the right to check all the messages an employee sends from company computers.
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The decision was that privacy rights don’t rule out employers checking whether staff are sending personal messages on work computers, in particular circumstances. It doesn’t directly change UK law, which already allows some monitoring.
On 12 January, the European Court of Human Rights decided that the employers of a Romanian man who checked messages he’d sent at work...
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