✳️ PRIVACY | INSTANT MESSAGING ✳️

European Court rules bosses can monitor employees' private messages on WhatsApp and other messaging services

According to the court, it’s “not unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours”. The judge dismissed the employee’s right to privacy on his messenger and ruled that what he sent could be monitored by his boss.

➡️ What you can’t do:
Use work equipment and accounts to send non-work related messages, like the fired Romanian employee.

➡️ What you can do:
Carry on using your own private accounts. Thankfully law from the European Court of Human Rights isn’t completely enforced over here, it just has to be taken into account.

via http://thetab.com/2016/01/13/your-boss-is-now-allowed-to-monitor-your-whatsapp-messages-68859

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