A European court today ruled in favor of a man who was fired for breaching company policy by using his work account on Yahoo Messenger to send messages to his fiancee and brother. Court documents disclosed that the company – which was not named in said documents – failed to provide proper notification to employees that they were being monitored. The European Court of Human Rights decided that Romanian judges hadn’t protected the plaintiff’s right to privacy when they ruled in favor of the company. It concluded that employees weren’t given sufficient notice of the extent to which they were being…

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