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French companies looking to monitor their employees’ communications should make sure they haven’t unwittingly restricted themselves more than the law requires
The Bordeaux Court of Appeals in France has ruled, in Pierre B. v. Epsilon Composite, that a company was justified in reviewing emails sent by an employee using a workplace computer, since the employee had not identified the messages as personal
The Cour de Cassation Chambre sociale, the labor chamber of France's highest court of appeals, upheld a lower court's ruling that an employer is entitled to open employee files not marked "private," even without the employee's presence or consent
