k wrote:
] ] Authorities charged Councilman with violating the Wiretap
] ] Act, which governs unauthorized interception of
] ] communication. But the court found that because the
] ] e-mails were already in the random access memory, or RAM,
] ] of the defendant's computer system when he copied them,
] ] he did not intercept them while they were in transit over
] ] wires and therefore did not violate the Wiretap Act, even
] ] though he copied the messages before the intended
] ] recipients read them. The court ruled that the messages
] ] were in storage rather than transit.

OK, they picked the wrong law. They should go back with the electronic communications privacy act, which protects stored electronic communications which are less then 180 days old.

RE: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible