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Man charged with felony for reading his wife's e-mail to track an affair

By Kimberly P. Mitchell Detroit Free Press, via AP A Michigan man faces up to 5 years in prison for reading his wife's e-mail to find out if she was having an affair, the Detroit Free Press reports. Oakland County prosecutors used a state statute typically used to prosecute crimes like identity theft or stealing trade secrets, the newspaper says. In preliminary testimony, Clara testified that while Leon had bought her that laptop, it was hers alone and that she kept the password a secret. Leon Walker says he routinely used the computer and that she kept all of her passwords in a small book next to it. "It was a family computer," he says. "I did work on it all the time." To read the complete news article from USA Today, please click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on December 27, 2010 (boomark / email).