Legal Question in Criminal Law in Canada
email theft
If a former employee of a company (as they knew they were going to be terminated) deletes and purges Company email from a Company email account, of which the Company has specifically outlined the Company owns the email account, not the employee, can this be categorized as theft on a criminal level.
Additionally, can the Company assign a financial cost to the deleted and purged emails, as another Company employee then had to research and track down the deleted and purged email information.
Thanking you in advance.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: email theft
Section 430(1.1)(a) of the Criminal Code makes it an offence - mischief in relation to data - to destroy data. At first blush, I'd say that emails are data. I don't see why the company can't ascribe a value to the data.
Ron Jourard
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