Anonymised respondent
Enquiry closed; parallel supreme court proceedings. DPO, 14 October 2016.
The facts
A dismissed employee alleged that her employer's country manager and financial controller had been on automatic copy of all her work emails since she joined, read her private messages, and may have pulled information from the personal mobile on which her work email was configured. The enquiry found the automatic-copy claim unsupported, and that the respondent had appropriate security and organisational measures, including an end-user security policy and email guide acknowledged in writing by staff.
Orders and outcome
No offence was found; the Commissioner noted the dismissal itself was a matter for employment law, outside the Office's jurisdiction.
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