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Who cheated?
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:31 pm
by Gob
Husband charged after discovering wife's affair by reading her emails on shared computer
December 28, 2010 - 8:58AM
A US man who says he learned of his wife's affair by reading her e-mail on their computer faces trial on felony computer misuse charges.
Leon Walker, 33, of Michigan, used his wife's password to get into her Gmail account. Clara Walker filed for a divorce, which was granted this month.
Mr Walker told The Oakland Press of Pontiac that he was trying to protect the couple's children from neglect and calls the case a "miscarriage of justice."
Oakland County Assistant Prosecutor Sydney Turner says the charge is justified and the case will go ahead on February 7.
Privacy law writer Frederick Lane told the Detroit Free Press the law typically is used to prosecute identity theft and stealing trade secrets. He says he questions if a wife can expect privacy on a computer she shares with her husband.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... 198qu.html
Re: Who cheated?
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 11:16 pm
by Jarlaxle
Privacy law writer Frederick Lane told the Detroit Free Press the law typically is used to prosecute identity theft and stealing trade secrets. He says he questions if a wife can expect privacy on a computer she shares with her husband.
I agree with him...I can see no expectation of privacy on a shared machine.
Re: Who cheated?
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:15 am
by BoSoxGal
I'm surprised that any jurisdiction in Michigan, which is so incredibly hard hit by the recession, would expend the resources to prosecute such a case.
Re: Who cheated?
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 12:48 am
by Crackpot
Other types of crime are down they have to justify their budget somehow.
Re: Who cheated?
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 1:57 am
by Miles
So this just another case of getting caught with your pants down and complaing because your were caught. If either partner gets outed, for what ever the reason, they still are quilty. Soooooooo............ where is the problem?
Re: Who cheated?
Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 3:17 am
by Lord Jim
It doesn't seem to me like in this case the expectation of privacy necessarily relates to the computer....
The gmail account isn't like a word document...It's not stored on an individual computer....it could be accessed from anywhere....
If she shared her password to the account with her husband, or if the password was stored in a place to which they had common access, or if she left her bookmark to the account on a computer they shared commonly with an automatic log in, it seems to me she had no expectation of privacy....