Hungary : Vodafone condemned for invasion of privacy of its employees

Vodafone's practive consisting in watching its employees 24 hours a day was the subject of a first legal proceeding condemnation, by a Hungarian jurisdiction (Ref. 06659)
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According to the sentence, pronounced in a first trial by Budapest’s Court, on last Friday June 23rd, Vodafone Hungary, third operator of mobile telephony in this country, invaded the privacy of four of its employees by having watched them 24 hours a day, and keeping data gathered without them knowing it. Furthermore, the Court reckonned the company had also offended the employees’ good reputation because, further to beginning of the legal procedure, it had limited the use of the complainants’

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