Lavoratori e tutela della privacy: l’evoluzione della giurisprudenza della Corte Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo, tra controllo della corrispondenza elettronica e videosorveglianza

New technologies have a great impact on the work field: in this context, the privacy of workers is particularly affected by new means of control, such as video surveillance or the analysis of the web or emails utilization. This paper focuses on the evolution of the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence: in their recent decisions, the Strasbourg judges have established specific limits and criteria that employers, legislators and national Courts have to consider in the complex task to find a fair balance between the protection of workers’ privacy and the employers’ power to control employees.