You won’t be happy about this.
Think of everything you’ve ever said on G-Chat, Slack, even the office WhatsApp… Is it fit for your boss’ eyes?
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that employers have the right to read online messages sent by their employees during work hours earlier on today, according to Wired.
“The Court finds that it is not unreasonable for an employer to want to verify that the employees are completing their professional tasks during working hours,” the court wrote in its judgement.
The court had been deliberating whether the rights of a Romanian man had been breached when his employers surveilled his private messages for a week. Some of the messages referred to the man’s sexual health, as well as problems with his fiancé.
The court ruled that as long as companies are open and above-board about their surveillance of messages, they are entitled to read them.
Might be time to get deleting, so…
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