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Employers can read workers' private messages sent via chat software and webmail accounts during working hours, judges have ruled.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read a worker's Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at work was within its rights.

Judges said he breached the company's rules and that his employer had a right to check he was completing his work.

 

The judges said that unregulated snooping by employers would not be acceptable.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35301148

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How are they going to read messages on web based services when the chat etc is stored in the cloud and servers which are not even UK based?

 

I would be surprised if this is actually legal, I know from personal experience that even when performing an investigation on seized mobile phones, tablets and computers you are not allowed to just go looking at every piece of communication.

 

For example, trying to get access to a person's Facebook is an absolute nightmare.

 

 

 

 

 

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