European Court of Human Rights · 3 April 2007
Copland v United Kingdom
In plain English
A college employee's phone calls, emails and internet use were monitored. The Court held that work emails and internet use are protected by Article 8, and found a violation because no law regulated such monitoring at the time.
What the court ruled
It follows logically that e-mails sent from work should be similarly protected under Article 8, as should information derived from the monitoring of personal Internet usage.
Holds that there has been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention
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