&quot;His employer had discovered that he was using Yahoo Messenger for personal contacts, as well as professional ones.<p>Because it believed it was accessing a work account, the judges said, the firm had not erred.<p>The man, named Bogdan Barbulescu, ...argued that his right to a private life had been breached when his employer had read a log of messages on a Yahoo Messenger account he had set up for work, as well as that from a second personal one.<p>Mr Barbulescu&#x27;s employer had banned its staff from sending personal messages at work.<p>To check his account, the judges said, it had been necessary for his employer to access his records.&quot;<p>It sounds like a stupid policy, but all the company did was access a Yahoo account that he had set up as a work account and saw that he had also been using it for personal communications.