Europe's leading human rights court has ruled that companies have the right to monitor workers' online communications.
The European Court of Human Rights was ruling in the case of a Romanian engineer who was fired after using Yahoo Messenger not only for work purposes, but also to communicate with his fiancee and brother.
The company's policy stipulated that the messaging app was not to be used for personal purposes.
The Strasbourg court has sided with the company's argument that it was not "unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours." The court dismissed the engineer's argument that the company had disregarded his rights to privacy in confidential correspondence.
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