> It indicates this european court believes there is no right to privacy at work.
The court has been clear (in this case, and cases in the past) that employees do have a right to privacy at work, and that an employer cannot just trawl everything all the time, even if there are policies in place.
How is it clear exactly? Obviously they won't be trawling literally everything literally all the time, but being able to access anything they choose at any time they choose seems indistinguishable from the employee's perspective, and that is apparently allowed?
They can't access anything. They accessed his work work account because they thought it was the work account, and they had already asked him not to send personal stuff through the work account.
They didn't make any judgement about his personal account (which also got read) because as I understand it they've already ruled that you can't read personal accounts without very good reason.
The court has been clear (in this case, and cases in the past) that employees do have a right to privacy at work, and that an employer cannot just trawl everything all the time, even if there are policies in place.