European Court of Human Rights overturns an earlier ruling that gave employers the right to spy on workplace communications. Bogdan Barbulescu was fired ten years ago for sending messages to his fiance.. and brother using his workplace Yahoo Messenger account. The ruling will now become law in 47 countries that have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights. The ECHR says that the employers must inform their staff in advance if their communications are being monitored, and that the monitoring must be carried out for legitimate purposes and limited.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/09/employee-monitoring.html