European court rules employers can monitor online communication

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STRASBOURG: Employees in Europe will have to think twice about using the Internet to send private messages during office hours after Europe’s top rights court ruled that companies could monitor workers’ online communications. 

The case revolved around a Romanian engineer who was fired in 2007 after his company discovered he was using Yahoo Messenger to chat not only with his professional contacts but also with his fiancée and brother.