1. Are employers permitted to monitor social network use (such
as Facebook or Twitter) by employees at
work?
The use of social network tools in Argentina in the workplace is
not regulated under a specific law and the parameters and rules of
its use are usually granted by the employers and the particular
case law. Nevertheless it has become a raising concern for the
employers.
In that context, we have an opinion on the subject based on
general guidelines and analogy from monitoring of e-mail accounts
and electronic systems, as well as general powers of control and
organization by the employer.
The employers control should be executed under certain
parameters, contemplating the employee's privacy rights. For
instance, the employer could be considered to be allowed to monitor
how much time an employee uses Internet at work, or what sites
he/she visits. On the other hand, if the employer would have access
to an employee's social network account, it could be
