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Article: Court allows e-mail interception, raising privacy questions
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 30, 2004
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MARK JEWELL, AP Business Writer
AP Worldstream
06-30-2004
Dateline: BOSTON
In an online eavesdropping case with potentially profound implications, a federal appeals court ruled it was acceptable for a company that offered e-mail service to surreptitiously track its subscribers' messages.
A now-defunct online literary clearinghouse, Interloc Inc., made copies of the e-mails in 1998 so it could peruse messages sent to its subscribers by rival Amazon.com Inc. An Interloc executive was subsequently indicted on an illegal wiretapping charge.
An advocacy group said Tuesday's ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opens the door to further interpretations of the federal Wiretap Act that ...
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