A Michigan man is facing up to 5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine because he is being prosecuted under the laws designed for hackers and identity thieves for doing just this. Suspicious of his wife, he logged onto their shared laptop using her password in a notebook she kept near the computer, read her Gmail account, and discovered not only that there was an affair but that their children were being taken to the home of her former husband who had been charged with assaulting her. Did he do anything wrong in this case? How much privacy should spouses have with respect to each other, if any? And should it be a crime?
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Links:
Is snooping your spouse’s email a crime? (WSJ)
Husband’s email snooping may get five years (Computer World)
MI hacking case opens US to ridicule (Politics Daily)
More details on the case (Oakland Press)
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