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Swiss court upholds WhatsApp secrecy in case of fired employee

By John Miller on Jul 3, 2019 6:55AM
Swiss court upholds WhatsApp secrecy in case of fired employee

Ordered to pay after illegally inspecting chats.

A Swiss company must pay a worker it fired over WhatsApp messages in which she criticised her boss, a Swiss court has ruled, saying the firm violated her right to privacy by illegally inspecting the chats. The Zurich Upper Court upheld a lower labour court ruling in deciding the company, whose ...

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By John Miller
Jul 3 2019
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