Employee Privacy

[dealmaker]

Employee Privacy

A former employee of France's state-owned rail operator, SNCF, has lost a privacy challenge against his former employer, which found pornography on his work computer, along with forged certificates he had apparently created for other people. The man claimed the company had violated his privacy rights by searching his computer while he wasn't there, but the European Court of Human Rights disagreed—because the files in question were not clearly marked as being private. Politico

 

[zdreg]

the point is in France from a legal point of view even though it is a work computer he is entitled to privacy to some degree. it is unclear from article whether the employee can be forced to open files marked personal in the presence of his boss.
labor has too much power in France.