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Could Reading Your Spouse’s Emails Land You In Jail?

Does reading your spouse’s emails make you a snoop or a hacker? While some simply see internet snooping on a husband or wife as a rude invasion of privacy, one man in Michigan is facing felony charges after he clicked around in his wife’s email account.

According to national news sources, 33-year-old Leon Walker is facing felony computer misuse charges after he read and distributed emails from his wife’s gmail account. Walker says that his wife left her password laying around the house and that when he read the emails in her folder, he discovered that she was likely having an affair with her second husband, who had been previously accused of domestic violence against his wife in front of his stepson. The man then printed the emails and gave them to her first husband, the father of the wife’s son.

While the case has yet to go to court, many attorneys have already spoken out on the felony charges – which were put in place to prevent identity theft and trade secret stealing. Many argue that you give up much of your privacy when you enter into a marriage, while others are quick to point out that Walker did not hack into a stranger’s computer – he shared the computer with his wife and did not force his way into her email account.

Walker was arrested for reading his wife’s emails in February 2009 and is due in court next month. Walker and his wife Clara are now divorced.

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