|
|
Article: Court revives indictment in e-mail interception case
- Article from:
- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- August 11, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightProvided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
MARK JEWELL, AP Business Writer
AP Worldstream
08-11-2005
Dateline: BOSTON
A federal appeals court Thursday revived the government's online eavesdropping prosecution against an executive of a company that offered e-mail service and surreptitiously tracked its subscribers' messages.
The case, closely watched by Internet privacy groups, had been dismissed in 2003 by a judge who found it was acceptable for the company _ an online literary clearinghouse _ to make copies of the e-mails so it could peruse messages sent to its subscribers by rival Amazon.com Inc.
An executive of the now-defunct clearinghouse, Interloc Inc., was indicted in 2001. Prosecutors argued that intercepting e-mail before the ...