In a ruling handed down on 12 January 2016, the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed a Romanian engineer’s complaint that since his employer had monitored his Yahoo Messenger account he had been a victim of a breach of his private life and his right to private communication. The employee had used the account in question for personal communication with his friends and family and this usage was grounds for his subsequent dismissal.
Article No. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Council of Europe) guarantees the right for all to have their privacy respected including their private communications.
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