For many workers, it is the stuff of nightmares. The idea that private WhatsApp messages complaining about your boss have been read by the very person being discussed. But last year what would be an anxious fever dream for many an office employee became a reality for a group of women working for Liverpool’s pre-eminent literature festival and organisation, Writing on the Wall (WOW). It was September 2 and as was customary, some of the close-knit group of all female employees at WOW were heading out for lunch after a busy morning’s work at the organisation’s base in the Toxteth Library building on Windsor Street, a stone’s throw from Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. When the women returned to the small office, which they worked in alongside WOW’s two co-directors, something didn’t feel right. One of the women believed someone had been using her computer because the screen was tilted at an angle she hadn’t left it at. More concerningly, she believed someone had been looking at the WhatsApp web application on her computer. Like many people, …