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Article: APPEALS COURT RULING REVIVES CASE OF INTERCEPTED E-MAIL BUSINESSMAN CAN BE TRIED UNDER WIRETAP STATUE

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August 12, 2005
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A federal appeals court in Boston said yesterday that a businessman charged with intercepting and reading his customers' e- mails can be tried under a federal wiretapping statute. The ruling is the latest twist in a four-year-old case that has been closely watched by Internet civil liberties groups around the country.

Bradford Councilman is former vice president of Interloc Inc., a rare book dealer in Greenfield that offered a free e-mail service to customers. In 1998, Councilman allegedly began intercepting any e- mails sent to his customers by the Internet retailer Amazon.com. Councilman and his colleagues allegedly read the messages to see what Amazon was offering his customers, so that ...

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