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Monitoring work-related Yahoo account breached employee's human rights

Barbulescu v Romania [2017] IRLR 1032 ECHR

human rights | electronic communications | Yahoo messages

In this Romanian case, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has held that monitoring the employee's private use of a business messaging account amounted to a breach of his right to private life and correspondence under art.8.