Is it illegal to access someone else's email or other personal accounts(answerbag, myspace etc.) wthout their knowledge?
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Little Devil the Pumpkin King
ANSWERS: 8
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Whatever it is, it's crossing the line of privacy
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In the EU - Yes, In the UK (apparently NOT...!) rest of the world.....? anyone else care to add their 50cents ...?
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Here in the U.S., in March of this year, David Kernell, 21, the son of a Democrat politician, was charged with accessing Governor Sarah Palin's account without authorisation, fraud, unlawful electronic transmission of material and trying to conceal records to impede investigation. If found guilty, he faces up to 20 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and five years supervised probation. He entered a plea of not guilty. That should answer your question insofar as the U.S. is concerned. +5
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i think so, but hey if you give your info to people then its on you.
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Depends on who it is. Accessing you kids's stuff? Not at all. Accessing employee's email on employers' equipment. Case law says it's not illegal. Accessing random persons? This is where it gets a little hazy. Does it violate you're 4th Ammendment protection? Not necessarily. It depends on who's looking and what you're doing with it. Common sense says it's illegal, but I've been hard pressed to find the statue or case law that covers individuals from accessing another individuals emails just to look. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Stored Communications Act cover some of these areas but leave alot of gray areas. The 4th Ammendment doesn't cover you if you're email is accessed by an individual. "...constitutional rights operate primarily to protect citizens from the government, 'state action' is required before a citizen can invoke a constitutional right." . If someone can find the law, case law or statute that covers individuals reading another's email without the intent to use it, I'd like to see it.
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I wouldn't necessarilly say it's "illegal", but more unethical. Just like if you sent someone a virus, the government will not give a shit because you could've simply just virus scanned and taken off the virus. It's more of an unethical (not quite right) act.
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Let me ask you this: Is it illegal to enter someone else's house without their knowledge? Yes. It's called breaking and entering. In the same way, it is also illegal to access someone else's email and/or other personal accounts without their knowledge because it isn't theirs and it's an invasion of privacy.
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Of course. Accessing someone's email account whether it to be Bebo, Msn, Answerbag, Facebook, Myspace, Aol, Yahoo is illegal and you can be arrested if you dont have there permission. Even if you try to hack the account even with a good Firewall, where ever you are hacking lets say if it was a Hotmail account, Hotmail would know as you are hacking into an email account on there server. Hacking or entering someones personal account is a serious crime, and you can go to jail, i dont see the point of it. Yes it is.
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