Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
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Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#2If you do it to a judge or congressman, i'm sure that would change ASAP
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#3IANAL, but it seems that you could extend this finding to argue that music and video files could be copied freely as long as they are in the cloud.
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#4This mostly seems to indicate that the Stored Communications Act is out of date. Unfortunately it is not likely to improve if the current Congress goes mucking around with it.
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#5It might be legal, but it isn't right.
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#6Isn't it a backup of the data in the person's brain, and thereby considered "electronic storage"?
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#7For perspective, they found it doesn't violate the SCA, but it may still violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Anyway, their reading of the law lends itself to a requirement to maintain (at least) two copies of a message (one the primary, and others the backups). If there is only one "copy" then it cannot be a backup.
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#8If you do it to a judge or congressman, i'm sure that would change ASAP
The cynical part of me says that they would just exclude themselves.
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#9But still makes you feel dirty inside.
Re: Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
#10For perspective, they found it doesn't violate the SCA, but it may still violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Anyway, their reading of the law lends itself to a requirement to maintain (at least) two copies of a message (one the primary, and others the backups). If there is only one "copy" then it cannot be a backup.
So if I sync my emails to my phone than I have two copies and according to their logic the online one is a backup, right?