A husband, using his wife’s password, read her email on a shared laptop and learned she was having an affair. A prosecutor in Michigan then charged him with a felony for reading his now ex-wife’s Gmail, sending shock waves through the Internet. One might wonder where marital boundaries of sharing intimate communications end and crimes begin. Do the actions of husband and wives that don’t involve physical harm belong in criminal courts? Being charged with a crime for simply looking at email just doesn’t sound right!
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The Baffling Cybercrime Case of the Nosy Spouse
Posted by: Peter S. Vogel January 12, 2011 05:00 AMA husband, using his wife’s password, read her email on a shared laptop and learned she was having an affair. A prosecutor in Michigan then charged him with a felony for reading his now ex-wife’s Gmail, sending shock waves through the Internet. One might wonder where marital boundaries of sharing intimate communications end and crimes begin. Do the actions of husband and wives that don’t involve physical harm belong in criminal courts? Being charged with a crime for simply looking at email just doesn’t sound right!