Legal Question in Legal Ethics in California

unauthorized receipt of email

Is there a legal issue when someone receives and reads email when they are not the intended recipient?

Apparently, a personal email address was left configured in Outlook on a business computer after the employee resigned. Since then, management has apparently been reading personal emails sent to the personal address.


Asked on 4/07/09, 3:26 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert F. Cohen Law Office of Robert F. Cohen

Re: unauthorized receipt of email

If it's e-mail that was sent after the employee's resignation, then the company is in the wrong, and the invasion of privacy might be actionable if the intended recipient is harmed.

The person should immediately change the account's password.

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Answered on 4/08/09, 8:00 pm


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