Friday, April 10, 2009

What is the Texas law on accessing and reading another person's email without their consent?

Can anyone point me to any websites where I can read up on the Texas law regarding accessing and reading another person's personal email without their permission? The email was not associated with work, just a personal hotmail or yahoo account. The person who did this did not have permission to access the account at anytime and was never given the login in or password. They also did not access the account for any monetary reasons. It appears they read the emails just to read the emails. This person also does not live in my house so the account was accessed from a different location, possibly their home. What legal rights do I have regarding this matter?


It's not Texas law, it's federal law. Accessing a computer without consent is a criminal violation.

Well if you accessed it at work then the would have the right. Otherwise I think it violates federal law as well. Sorry don't know the site. Why not just go to the State website and look it up?

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