# Email Law
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [December 8, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420 "2008-12-08T17:58:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/1 "2008-12-08T17:58:03Z")
Aside from harassment, or threats.
If someone emails another person. (Person A emailing Person B) Is person B able to post the email onto a public site?
I’ve tried looking into these laws… but kind of run into a dead end everytime.
Any incite?
Basically I am person A, emailing person B with some information and I don’t want to be posted onto her fucking site
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/2 "2008-12-08T17:59:46Z")
What are you on about ? LOL \<3
On topic: Id think that if its personal email he/she can do what they will with it.
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### Author:  [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/3 "2008-12-08T17:59:55Z")
I am almost positive that you can…why?
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### Author:  [@Bull49](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bull49)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/4 "2008-12-08T18:01:12Z")
i don’t think email is a priveleged communication. i don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to do what you want with it. it was sent to you, it’s now your property. i don’t know of any legal ramifications, just spit balling here…
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/5 "2008-12-08T18:02:49Z")
Basically someone pissed me off, its a local blogger who has nothing but negatives to say. I really don’t want my name posted on her site because she is pretty a Cunt that will post signs in my lawn and have her constantly calling the cops about any possible violation she can possibly find with where I live.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/6 "2008-12-08T18:03:28Z")
> [@92slowcivic](#):
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> i don’t think email is a priveleged communication. i don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to do what you want with it. it was sent to you, it’s now your property. i don’t know of any legal ramifications, just spit balling here…
Agreed, theres obv laws about companies disclosing personal info, but just a random person in a “personal” Email Id think not.
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/7 "2008-12-08T18:04:50Z")
> [@ILC](#):
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> Basically someone pissed me off, its a local blogger who has nothing but negatives to say. I really don’t want my name posted on her site because she is pretty a Cunt that will post signs in my lawn and have her constantly calling the cops about any possible violation she can possibly find with where I live.
What did you do to here ? :spank:
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/8 "2008-12-08T18:05:11Z")
I’m pretty sure that communication via snail mail is considered privileged isn’t it…
or that you can’t tamper with it before it is opened?
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### Author:  [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/9 "2008-12-08T18:05:32Z")
Well see with Sarah Palin’s email that was hacked, the hackers gave it to a website who in turn posted it. Which is legal.
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/10 "2008-12-08T18:06:45Z")
> [@IanK](#):
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> What did you do to here ? :spank:
I did nothing… Basically is the lady in the neighbor hood that calls the cops on every party, calls the cops about every little infraction, that she can find.
1. I don’t want to wait for the “boy who cried wolf” where the cops just disregard her.
2. I like where I live and I don’t want to drive the college students out of this area, for a ton of reasons
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/11 "2008-12-08T18:07:36Z")
> [@BillysRevenge](#):
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> Well see with Sarah Palin’s email that was hacked, the hackers gave it to a website who in turn posted it. Which is legal.
that is a different circumstance.
My situation would be where sarah palin read emails on tv that she has received
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/12 "2008-12-08T18:07:38Z")
Yep Snail mail cant be tampered with, but if info that isnt disclosed by company I think is fair game.
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### Author:  [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/13 "2008-12-08T18:09:23Z")
The law regards each of these situations as distinct.
1. Interception of e-mail during transmission is prohibited by federal wiretap statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2510-2521 and also some state wiretap statutes. The federal statutes were amended in 1986 by Title I of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to include e-mail.
2. Reading e-mail during storage on a computer system is prohibited by federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 2701-2711, Title II of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), provided that the system is “providing an electronic communication service to the public.” This means, among other things, that your e-mail messages are confidential when stored on a computer owned by an ISP that offers to any member of the public the ability to send e-mail and you pay for the account yourself. But there is no protection in 18 U.S.C. § 2702 for e-mail stored on a computer system operated by a corporation primarily for its own business communications. So, if you send e-mail to a company (e.g., [jdoe@ibm.com](mailto:jdoe@ibm.com)) and the e-mail is stored on that company’s computer, you have no privacy rights under this statute.
**3. The recipient of e-mail is generally free to share the information in the e-mail with anyone, subject to legal obligations that are mentioned later in this paper.**
Reading e-mail that is stored on a computer is not an “interception” under 18 U.S.C. § 2510, et seq., because an interception must be contemporaneous with the transmission of the message between different locations. Steve Jackson Games v. U.S. Secret Service, 816 F.Supp. 432, 442 (W.D.Tex. 1993), aff’d, 36 F.3d 457, 460 (5thCir. 1994). This holding has been accepted in several subsequent cases, including Wesley College v. Pitts, 974 F.Supp. 375, 384-390 (D.Del. 1997); U.S. v. Moriarty, 962 F.Supp. 217, 221 (D.Mass. 1997); Bohach v. City of Reno, 932 F.Supp. 1232, 1235-36 (D.Nev. 1996).
One court noted that there is a loophole in Title II of the ECPA, where an unknown person can make a copy of e-mail and give it away, then other people who do not provide an electronic communication service can lawfully make a further distribution of copies of that private e-mail. Wesley College v. Pitts, 974 F.Supp. 375, 389 (D.Del. 1997).
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/14 "2008-12-08T18:10:19Z")
> [@ILC](#):
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> I did nothing… Basically is the lady in the neighbor hood that calls the cops on every party, calls the cops about every little infraction, that she can find.
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> 1. I don’t want to wait for the “boy who cried wolf” where the cops just disregard her.
>
> 2. I like where I live and I don’t want to drive the college students out of this area, for a ton of reasons
I see, well IDK if theres a noise violation I guess she has the right to call the cops, and if you disclosed info to her via email, Id say she has the right to use it on her blog or whatever.
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/15 "2008-12-08T18:14:19Z")
> [@IanK](#):
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> I see, well IDK if theres a noise violation I guess she has the right to call the cops, and if you disclosed info to her via email, Id say she has the right to use it on her blog or whatever.
She searches parties via facebook, calls the cops at the times of the parties, so they may break it up.
basically has nothing positive to say about the University at Buffalo, walks up and down the road looking for things to call the cops and complain about. **There has been times where she actually walked into my apartment to ask who’s car was parked at the end of the road, so that a lightbulb may be changed on a street light…**
The lady is ridiculous.
She doesn’t try to look after the community. she tries to fuck people over.
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### Author:  [@fbrendan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fbrendan)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/16 "2008-12-08T18:14:45Z")
link?
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/17 "2008-12-08T18:17:02Z")
> [@fbrendan](#):
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> link?
[http://buffalowatch.blogspot.com/](http://buffalowatch.blogspot.com/)
There is some of her work. She has an emailing list too.
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### Author:  [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/18 "2008-12-08T18:20:33Z")
sounds like you need to find a way to make her move. geeze people need to get a life. i feel bad for ya mang
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### Author:  [@Avatar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Avatar)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/19 "2008-12-08T18:21:50Z")
As long as you don’t violate any defamation or invasion of privacy laws, I think you’re ok. Although, IANAL yet…
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/email-law/59420/20 "2008-12-08T18:26:24Z")
> [@ILC](#):
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> She searches parties via facebook, calls the cops at the times of the parties, so they may break it up.
>
> basically has nothing positive to say about the University at Buffalo, walks up and down the road looking for things to call the cops and complain about. **There has been times where she actually walked into my apartment to ask who’s car was parked at the end of the road, so that a lightbulb may be changed on a street light…**
>
> The lady is ridiculous.
>
> She doesn’t try to look after the community. she tries to fuck people over.
Thats shitty,UGH I know all about PITA neighbors. and they suck. Clearly she cleans her vag with steel wool on a daily basis, and needs to get a fucking life, but I really dont see anything Illegal being done on her part, ODk maybe find a creative way to beat here ?
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