Claim: A court decision gives employers the right to check all the messages an employee sends from company computers.
Fact-check: Can the boss now read your messages at work? - Full Fact
Verdict: the decision was that privacy rights don't rule out employers checking whether staff are sending personal messages on work computers, in particular circumstances. it doesn't directly change uk law, which already allows some monitoring.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2016-01-14T00:00:00