Welcome to our February HRizon employment law newsletter
We look at two recent cases which consider the extent to which employees may have an expectation of privacy in private communications and documents stored on their work devices.
We also explore a recent data protection case which confirms that an individual making a subject access request is entitled to know the identity of any person with whom their personal data has been shared.
There is a feature article on ESG, and we also highlight other cases of interest and HR news from the last month.
Recent Employment Case
The High Court recently held that an ex-employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in 80,000 private and intimate WhatsApp messages that the employer had used to successfully defend her employment tribunal claims; the employee’s claim for misuse of private information could proceed. Read more…
Did a company’s directors have a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal emails and documents they had stored on their employer’s computer system? Yes, held the High Court. Whilst the company’s IT professionals could access and look at data stored on a company’s computer servers, the purposes of them doing so...
The notorious ShinyHunters gang on Tuesday claims to have breached the FBI, compromising multiple systems and agent data – all in apparent retaliation against the law enforcement agency for publis...