interesting. wouldnt the ex wife had to have given the husband her password to get into the email to begin with?
so she has the affair, gets caught because somehow he got her password, and gets to sue her husband because she got caught?
another reason why i just LOVE lawyers.

i gave my ex all my passwords, even to my support board, and vise versa. we didnt have anything to hide. when he first blocked me from his facebook account, changed the cell phone password and got a new email address, red flags and sirens went up everywhere. those who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.

between couples, shouldn't there any secret or privacy?
so this wife must got tired being open or watched by this crazy husband?

my husband wants to know everything about me, even in the toilet.

hiding is natural and that's human being.

I am not sure what I think about this case to be honest.

But I do think there is a implied morality that it is wrong to sign into anyones email for any reason short of life and death to read their email.

And while I certainly don't condone improper relationships - there has to be a sense of privacy - you don't have to tell your spouse everything - that is just as unhealthy as telling nothing.

Seems right, but looking deeply into situation.... Don't even know what to say, because divorce was coming regardless.

interesting, again. i never thought about this until now, but when there was a sense of openness in my relationship with my ex, i felt i could really trust him. i never even used any passwords of his to look at anything except the phone records because i was trying to reach my MIL and husband told me to look on the phone records for her new cell number. HE told me to go there. i found a number that wasnt familiar, assumed it was MIL, called it and it was his ex. he had been calling her without my knowledge when he had been around her area - the area code was the same as MIL since they are all up north, and i would have never known had HE not instructed me to go to the records and look. the cells were in his name- and i wasnt looking for anything so i had no reason to comb thru them. again, never thought about that until now. a lot of trust issues came up because of that- almost like he wanted to get caught. maybe it was stupid of me to not look when i had all that information? but i didnt, because i had no reason not to trust him. it wasnt to take away his privacy or mine. everything was just open. it wasnt about knowing everything; it was about realzing we trusted each other enough to give one another that information, even before we were married. i guess i was naieve- maybe i should have been snooping. i simply didnt, because i felt i could trust him knowing i had that information- i didnt even question it.
thats why i love this board- this is the second mind jolt i have had today by coming on here. i like shaking things up. it helps me learn more about myself.
i will be interested to hear how this case pans out.

My guess is that it was about setting 'precedence' so that people don't think it's ok to log into their spouse's email based on suspicions of infidelity, trying to protect the children, etc.

If the court had not charged him & instead accepted his reasons for violating her privacy, others will be able to use this case in the future as precedence.

Having said that, i think it happens far too often. I have a couple of friends who have confessed to having their ex's password and checking their email. I think it's not only wrong, it's a slippery slope and usually nothing good comes from it for the person snooping.

idk, being i had a lying, cheating ex who gave me his passwords to everything. i used to check it all the time. but he GAVE he the passwords and knew i was checking every so often. so therefore i feel that i did nothing wrong. idk.

after he changed them and we seperated, i stopped checking. i don't know if its worth felony charges. to me its like giving someone your car keys and saying you can drive me car but don't leave fingerprints on the steering wheel or else.

if the password was obtained in a different manner, then i can see charges filed. however, felony? really?

seems like, she destroyed the marriage by cheating and now makes light of him checking her emails to shadow the fact that she was initially wrong to begin with. thats just my thoughts. :)

who sinned first?

that's some wife who cheats on her husband and then has the gall to charge him with invading her privacy afterwards.


wow

how about giving him a pass on that one thing? like he hasn't been through enough already?

or who knows, maybe she divorced him because he was too controlling, and invasive, in which case, just divorce the guy and walk away...THEN have your affair?

I dunno, I don't get some people's choices sometimes.

:(