Legal ruling on information transparency

BBC News reports:

A new ruling, which said a college had breached a woman's privacy by secretly monitoring her emails, means employers cannot spy on staff, say legal experts.

Lynette Copland, who works at Carmarthenshire College in west Wales, successfully sued her employer for breaching the Human Rights convention.

She was awarded more than £6,000 by the European Court of Human Rights.

Employment law solicitor Alison Love said if employers were going to monitor emails they must tell their employees.

It's interesting to note that the ruling doesn't outlaw the spying altogether, but rather obligates employers to do it transparently. More a victory for the inexorable tide of information freeflow than for "privacy", then?