The European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”) recently issued a judgment on the hot topic of employee monitoring in the case of Barbulescu v Romania. In this instance, the majority of judges (in a 6:1 judgment) held that an employee’s right to “private life” and “correspondence” had not been violated by the employer who had accessed the contents of the employee’s work-related instant messaging account. The Underlying DisputeMr Barbulescu, a Romanian national, worked for a private…