Digging Through The Dirt!
Judge rules looking at old e-mails not wiretap violation

An employer's decision to dig through an employee's e-mails in computer storage does not violate any federal or state wiretap laws -- not even the "Stored Communications Act"-since the laws are triggered only when the interception occurs "in the course of transmission," a federal judge has ruled. The judge said reading old e-mails may be ethically questionable, but it isn't legally actionable. (Source: The Legal Intelligencer - Law.com March 29, 2001)


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