- In its decision, the court ruled that making an employee keep their webcam on was an intrusion of privacy rights.But another employee at Chetu said the requirement for employees to keep their webcams on was "no different" from how an employee would be seen by everyone all day in a physical office, according to the court papers.The fired employee took Chetu to court in the Netherlands, where he was based, saying he wasn't given an "urgent reason" to "justify the immediate dismissal given," and that the company's demand that he keep his webcam on was a violation of his privacy rights.It further referred to a European Court of Human Rights' judgment in a 2017 case "that video surveillance of an employee in the workplace, be it covert or not, must be considered as a considerable intrusion into the employee's private life."If the Dutch employee were working in Florida or many other places in the US, TechCrunch pointed out, the employee likely would have fallen under so-called right-to-work laws, which state that employees work "at will" — and generally can quit or be fired at any time, for most any reason, likely including the refusal to keep a webcam running at all times."