On 12 January 2016, the European Court of Human Rights handed down a decision on the lawfulness of monitoring private messages sent on an employee’s Yahoo! Messenger account using the employer’s computer system; the case was Barbulescu v. Romania.
The facts of this case were quite specific; however the key message, which reflects the…
This post was written by Cynthia O’Donoghue.
Spain’s constitutional court, the Tribunal Constitucional, made a landmark ruling in the case of Pérez González v. Alcaliber S.A. in early October, finding that companies are permitted to access and monitor employee communications via company IT resources, including emails and texts, as part of investigations into employee…
