Your Old Tweets Resurface with Twitter’s Data Reseller Partners. Employer access to employee emails and files: new French case law. Applicable Rules to Employer Monitoring and Use by Employees of IT Tools (Email and Internet) In France, the employer's right to monitor the use by employees of company IT tools is subject to certain limits: the surveillance system must be brought to the employee's knowledge and requires prior consultation of the works council as well as the filing of a notification with the French data protection commission (CNIL) in the event of collection of personal data; the employer's monitoring must be reasonable and based on legitimate business needs (e.g., productivity, safety, protection against intrusion, viruses, promotion of the company); the restriction of employees’ rights and freedoms must be proportionate to the requirements of the professional activity; monitoring must be proportionate to its objective and must be conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner.
Specific Rules for Access to “Personal” Emails or Files. Who's reading your Twitter DMs? "What will we do," asked Bill Thompson recently, "when the next WikiLeaks hoard is every Twitter DM [direct message] or Facebook chat transcript?
" That's unlikely to happen, of course. Julian Assange's team are more concerned with international affairs than bothering the millions of casual Twitterers. If you're not on the public stage, the chances are that you're just not notable enough for Wikileaks.