To what extent are the personal communications sent by an employee from their employer’s computer private? In Europe it has been accepted for some years that employees do not lose their right to privacy in the workplace. However a recent
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The European Court of Human Rights Decides that Accessing an Employee’s Work IM Account Did Not Breach His Privacy Rights
To what extent are the personal communications sent by an employee from their employer’s computer private? In Europe it has been accepted for some years that employees do not lose their right to privacy in the workplace. However a recent…
Vilcek Prizes Honor Immigrants in Theatre and Biomedical Science
Blanka Zizka and Dan R. Littman receive $100,000 Vilcek PrizesWinners of Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise receive $50,000 awardsThe Vilcek Prizes, presented annually to immigrants who have made outstanding contributions to their fields, are this year awarded in biomedical science…
Employers Can Read Employees’ Private Messages
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled in favour of the employer in a case concerning a Romanian sales engineer whose employment was terminated following discovery by his employer that he was sending private messages using a Yahoo…
European Court of Human Rights Issues Decision on Monitoring Employee Use of the Internet
On January 12, 2016, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Bărbulescu v. Romania that companies can monitor their employees’ online communications in certain circumstances.…
Much ado about nothing in EU decision on workplace email monitoring
“Private Messages at Work can be Read by EU Employers” blared the BBC online yesterday in the sort of alarmist over-simplification normally best left to the Daily Mail.
Mr Barbulescu worked for an unnamed business in Romania. He was instructed…
Rabobank raids rural Romania | Europe | DW.COM | 12.11.2015
On the unpaved streets of Zarand, a village in Western Romania where hundreds of subsistence farmers scratch a living on tiny plots of land, everyone is telling the same story. via www.dw.comRuh roh!
Intercambio “informado” de datos entre Administraciones Públicas
El Abogado General de la UE ha emitido sus conclusiones sobre una cuestión prejudicial (Asunto C-201/14) presentada por la Curtea de Apel Cluj (Rumanía). El Abogado General alude en dichas conclusiones a los requisitos que deben cumplir las…
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Artist and retired lawyer Cedric Hustace on avoiding a “whoops” moment, listening to classical music and jazz, and putting that first dab of color on canvas. Indiana-based artist Cedric Hustace uses the world around him—from blooming flowers alongside a path…
I Spent a Month Living in a Romanian Sexcam Studio | VICE United States
Webcam studios are to bedroom masturbators what brothels are to Johns. And if the internet had a designated red light district, it would be Romania, where there are currently an estimated 2,000 studios in operation. The cousins studio Kazampo is…