"Accessing Personal WhatsApp Messages on Shared Work Laptop an Invasion of Privacy"

Sean Fitzpatrick and Michael Thorburn represented the Canadian Media Guild in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v Canadian Media Guild, where a federal arbitrator recently found that the CBC violated a former employee's privacy when a colleague accessed his WhatsApp account on a shared work laptop, found evidence in his messages of misconduct and reported him to management.

A copy of the article published in Canadian Lawyer magazine can be found here.