German Federal Labour Court has ruled that companies can’t install keyloggers to monitor employees because such an action violates personal privacy rights. The court ruled on this matter in a lawsuit filed by a web developer against a media agency located in Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia state. The developer had worked for the company for four years, but he was fired in April 2015, a month after the company installed keylogging software on employees’ devices without prior notification. The company fired the developer because he used his work computer to write code for a computer game for another company.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/companies-cant-use-keyloggers-to-spy-on-employees-says-german-court/