I live in Pennsylvania. A co-worker of mine found my personal (not work related at all) email password and used it to read my emails without my knowledge or permission. She is divorcing and found some slightly inappropriate emails between her husband and I. Can she use these in court? Is it illegal to read, print, and share my emails with co-workers?

twinkiedooter

First off you should not have been using your work place for personal use. You can guarantee you will get in trouble every time you do something like that. You are just going to have to bite the bullet and just hope she does not try and use them to her advantage in a divorce action. This email stuff is too new to know what kind of laws there are about read, print, etc. but I'd be on the side of you let a $10 bill lying around on your desk at work, come back and it's gone and who are you going to blame? You for being the dumb bell who left it out for someone to be tempted to take in the first place.

You should consider yourself extremely lucky that your employer does not know about you using your email for personal use. Employers are coming down hard on inappropriate use of email, internet, etc for personal use. Some people are getting fired for this.

Don't you have a job to do, or do you just show up to look pretty? Lemme guess, you're eye candy.

melipooh72

Thanks but maybe I wasn't clear. A co-worker did this but it did not happen at work. She got into my personal home account while she was at her home on her own computer. The problem is that she has taken my personal emails to work and involving other co-workers.

twinkiedooter

In that case it's a whole different color of horseflesh. How in the world could she get your password if she's at her home....unless she's reading the email you sent to him and she's reading his end of the email. Still don't understand just how she got password (hope you changed password by now LOL)

Personally I think email are a bane on mankind making it much too easy to snoop on other people.

I hope she's had her fun because if she tries to take these and work them to her advantage in the divorce - that's bordering on theft and blackmail (depending on just how she is using the emails) on her part unless she can prove that she has proper access to his email account (providing they have seperate accounts). Kinda gets sticky here since like I said before this email stuff has not been around too long to have proper rulings and cases go to appellate courts for rulings on yet. My guess is if I looked online right now there would only be a handfull of rulings on emails and most would have to do with company emails and not personal stuff. I'm stumped for an answer for you.