Email Snooping States Claim for Tortious Intrusion Upon Seclusion

Evan Brown at Internet Cases has a good writeup of Steinbach v. Village of Forest Park, No. 06-4215, 2009 WL 2605283 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 25, 2009) which holds that email snooping can be a tortious intrusion upon seclusion.

My e-home is my (cyber) castle.

This entry was posted in Law: Privacy. Bookmark the permalink.

One Response to Email Snooping States Claim for Tortious Intrusion Upon Seclusion

  1. Developer says:

    I can agree that my own e-home is my cyber castle, because in my e-mail there is some very private info which I prefer to keep secure. And e-mail snooping can be a threat to my private world. However, different people have various nterpretations about what is private information.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.