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> I avoid workplaces which force shit like this. So do all the good developers I know, because they're people who can afford to be choosy. So you and your choo
by spelunker 9y ago
> I avoid workplaces which force shit like this. So do all the good developers I know, because they're people who can afford to be choosy.
So you and your choosy developer friends work at a place where IT can't access your corporate email?
- enzo1982 9y agoIn Germany (and probably the whole EU) it's illegal for an employer to read an employee's mails without approval of the workers' council for each individual case.
- Piskvorrr 9y ago"probably the whole EU" [citation-needed]. German privacy law is very strict. This might be a good thing, don't get me wrong - but extrapolating this to all the other 27 member states is pure nonsense.
- enzo1982 9y agoThe European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that an employee's communication may not be monitored without prior notice and without specific reasons. [1] This ruling applies not only to the whole EU, but to the 47 member states of the Council of European, including for example Russia and Turkey. [1] https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-rule-of-law/-/echr-monitoring-an-employee-s-electronic-communications-amounted-to-a-breach-of-his-right-to-private-life https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-rule-of-law/-/echr-m...
- Piskvorrr 9y agoI'm aware of this, yet "prior notice + specific reasons" != "approval of the workers' council for each individual case"
- enzo1982 9y agoRequiring approval of the worker's council is how an employer's demand to read an employee's mail is usually handled in Germany. I did not mean to imply that it is handled the same way in the whole EU, just that unsubstantiated monitoring is likely illegal in the whole EU.