France: Court of Cassation decides that an employer can use a Facebook post to dismiss an employee

What happens when an employer discovers that one of their employees has breached commercial confidentiality through a social media posting? How does an employee’s rights to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights relate to a company’s right to protect its trade secrets under statutory and contractual law? Recently, the Court of Cassation in France had to consider the fundamental privacy rights of an employee who had posted details of their firm’s latest clothing collection on Facebook …

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