Tag: employee monitoring

No, you can’t snoop on your staff

I do wish the Europeans would make up their minds. There was an ECJ ruling a couple of years ago that made it clear that you could monitor your employees' private use of the internet while at work. The GDPR also makes it clear that you can process information that the data subject has "manifestly" made … Continue reading No, you can’t snoop on your staff →

Ben Rapp Business, Law 1 Comment July 14, 2017July 14, 2017

Yes, you can snoop on your staff

More Euro weirdness. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has decided that an employer was justified in monitoring an employee’s private Yahoo Messenger chats. That happened in 2007, when Yahoo Messenger was still a thing, but it’s the principle that matters. It may have taken a mere 9 years to grind its way through … Continue reading Yes, you can snoop on your staff →

Ben Rapp Business, Law, Security 2 Comments January 13, 2016

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