[PLUG] Email Legal Issues
AthlonRob
AthlonRob at axpr.net
Thu May 13 18:07:02 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 17:49, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
> Simple question for anyone who knows Internet law: when, and for whom,
> generally, is it legal to intercept and read an email message, that was
> not intended for that person's eyes? I'm in a trivial debate, so I'm
> looking for the summary answer.
I'm not a lawyer, and definitely am not an ACLU fan, but I read an
article by an ACLU goon a few months ago (which I have since thrown away
when cleaning out old papers) that outlined this. As I recall, it
stated you are allowed, by law, to view personal emails stored on a
system, but *not* personal emails traveling *through* a system.
Again, IANAL and I really don't remember the whole thing for sure. But
Google might be able to locate the article for you.
Rob
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