Your boss can legally read personal messages sent during working hours
A European ruling has declared that an organisation has the right to read private chat and e-mails sent by employees from the office during working hours. This ruling comes from the result of the appeal of Romanian engineer, Bogdan Barbulescu, who was fired in 2007 after his employers went through personal and work-related messages sent via Yahoo Messenger.
The BBC report states that the judges felt that his employer had a right to check on his activities. They said that it was not “unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours." In addition, because his employers believed that they were accessing a work account, the firm had not erred, according to the judges.
