The European Court of Human Rights ruled that companies should inform their employees if they are watching their emails.
In a landmark case for the protectionof privacy, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that companies must make sure employees know in advance about the monitoring of Email in their work.
According to Reuters, in a case of a man named Bogdan Barbulescu, who was hired 10 years ago by a company that used account company messages to contact his family, the judges found that the Romanian courts had failed to protect his private correspondence because his company had not given advance notice that it was monitoring his communication.
His company had presented printed papers of its employee's correspondence with his brother and fiancée, as evidence of a breach of the company's ban on using email for personal use.
The European Court of Justice in Strasbourg ruled by a majority of 11-6 that the Romanian judges, who ruled against the employer, had failed to protect Barbulescu's right to better safety of his private life.
