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"His employer had discovered that he was using Yahoo Messenger for personal contacts, as well as professional ones. Because it believed it was accessing a work
by panglott 11y ago
"His employer had discovered that he was using Yahoo Messenger for personal contacts, as well as professional ones.
Because it believed it was accessing a work account, the judges said, the firm had not erred.
The man, named Bogdan Barbulescu, ...argued that his right to a private life had been breached when his employer had read a log of messages on a Yahoo Messenger account he had set up for work, as well as that from a second personal one.
Mr Barbulescu's employer had banned its staff from sending personal messages at work.
To check his account, the judges said, it had been necessary for his employer to access his records."
It sounds like a stupid policy, but all the company did was access a Yahoo account that he had set up as a work account and saw that he had also been using it for personal communications.
- brazzledazzle 11y agoIt's possible the usernames were similar but the profile and log directories have a very clear separation between accounts that any IT person would be able to see. This sounds more like a justification after the fact.
- debacle 11y agoIf the file is on your work PC it belongs to your employer. It's a sticky situation but that's how it is.
- Nadya 11y agoWhich is why I use an external thumb drive with portable software and save any personal files to the thumb drive. It may hit their network but nothing is stored on their computers. Which gives plausible deniability - and I do not think they can legally search the thumb drive. Not that I'm paranoid about my current employer (extremely relaxed culture) but it is something I do out of habit.