Europe court backs employee fired over private messages
Strasbourg, France
EUROPE'S top rights court on Tuesday restricted the ability of employers to snoop on their staff's private messages in a landmark ruling with wide ramifications for privacy in the workplace.
The highest body of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favour of a 38-year-old Romanian man who claimed his rights had been violated when he was sacked in 2007 for sending private chat messages in the office.
Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu has fought a 10-year legal battle through Romanian and European courts, claiming his privacy was infringed when hi…
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