Current Events > Court convicts girl of reading her husband's emails without his consent.

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A wife in the canton of Aargau has been convicted of a criminal offence for going into her husbands email account and reading and downloading information without his knowledge.
The woman became suspicious after her husband set up a second email account on their home computer, according to the Aargauer Zeitung.

The couple had always known each others passwords and had even written them down, according to the paper. Since the man used one of these passwords for his new account, his wife was easily able to access it and read his emails.

So she did and discovered that he had been having affairs with several other women for some time.

She confronted her husband, who moved out of their apartment. He later filed a criminal complaint against his wife for reading his emails.

In February this year the Muri-Bremgarten public prosecutor issued the woman with a suspended financial penalty of 9,900 francs plus a 4,300 franc fine for her unauthorized intrusion into her husbands data, saying she deliberately and repeatedly invaded his email account and downloaded material that was not her own.

Speaking on appeal to the district court in Bremgarten, the womans lawyer demanded acquittal for his client, saying she didnt hack into her husbands email since she knew his password.

Her search history showed that, prior to reading her husbands emails, the defendant googled whether doing so would make her liable for prosecution. This showed she knew she was entering a grey area, said the court, even though the internet did not give her a definitive answer on the subject.

The court upheld the conviction, saying unauthorized intrusion into someone elses email account is illegal, however it greatly reduced the penalty, acknowledging the woman had only shown minimal criminal energy since all she had to do to access the email account was to exploit her husbands carelessness in using the password they both knew.

Speaking to 20 Minutes, Zurich lawyer Martin Brgi said it makes no difference whether the people involved are married, living together or dont know each other at all, someone must still have permission to read another persons messages.

Reading data protected by a password or code without the account owners permission is illegal under article 143 of the Swiss criminal code, he said.

According to the code, such an act is punishable with a fine or up to three years in prison.


Full Article: https://www.thelocal.ch/20171220/swiss-court-convicts-woman-for-reading-husbands-emails



3 years in prison? What the fuck?

How would you react CE if you came home tomorrow and found your girlfriend going through your e-mails like a dog going through the garbage can?
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Speaking to 20 Minutes, Zurich lawyer Martin Brgi said it makes no difference whether the people involved are married, living together or dont know each other at all, someone must still have permission to read another persons messages.

Reading data protected by a password or code without the account owners permission is illegal under article 143 of the Swiss criminal code, he said.

According to the code, such an act is punishable with a fine or up to three years in prison.

Dont want to do the time, dont do the crime.
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DeanAuryn posted...

Dont want to do the time, dont do the crime.

3 years is crazy though
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UnfairRepresent posted...

DeanAuryn posted...

Dont want to do the time, dont do the crime.

3 years is crazy though

I would be shocked if she actually does any time.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

DeanAuryn posted...

Dont want to do the time, dont do the crime.

3 years is crazy though

But everyone knows the law up front. 3 years or 30 years, dont commit crimes if you don't want to go to jail.
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To the best of my knowledge, a lot of places have laws like this. Where even if you give a person your password, it's hacking if they don't have explicit permission to use the account.

I'd probably ask her to delete some of the shit I don't care about, and tell me if she finds anything important while after I take a nap maybe
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Pretty smart of him.
He knows that she will find out that he cheated eventually, so he creates a secondary email on their computer (instead of leys say make a new gmail that he only access from the browser in private mode) to make her wonder why he did it, then he uses one of their shared passwords that he knows that she knows and then wait.
Wham, she discovers it and he can sue her.
He cheats, gets away with it, forces his girlfriend to pay him and as a bonus she might get jailed.
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Foppe posted...

Pretty smart of him.
He knows that she will find out that he cheated eventually, so he creates a secondary email on their computer (instead of leys say make a new gmail that he only access from the browser in private mode) to make her wonder why he did it, then he uses one of their shared passwords that he knows that she knows and then wait.
Wham, she discovers it and he can sue her.
He cheats, gets away with it, forces his girlfriend to pay him and as a bonus she might get jailed.

That's not smart it's being a jerk
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Foppe posted...

Pretty smart of him.
He knows that she will find out that he cheated eventually, so he creates a secondary email on their computer (instead of leys say make a new gmail that he only access from the browser in private mode) to make her wonder why he did it, then he uses one of their shared passwords that he knows that she knows and then wait.
Wham, she discovers it and he can sue her.
He cheats, gets away with it, forces his girlfriend to pay him and as a bonus she might get jailed.

That's not smart it's being a jerk

A smart jerk.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Foppe posted...

Pretty smart of him.
He knows that she will find out that he cheated eventually, so he creates a secondary email on their computer (instead of leys say make a new gmail that he only access from the browser in private mode) to make her wonder why he did it, then he uses one of their shared passwords that he knows that she knows and then wait.
Wham, she discovers it and he can sue her.
He cheats, gets away with it, forces his girlfriend to pay him and as a bonus she might get jailed.

That's not smart it's being a jerk

Who said it's mutually exclusive?
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Foppe posted...

he can sue her.

When did that happen?

forces his girlfriend to pay him

Or that?

JE19426 posted...

Foppe posted...

he can sue her.

When did that happen?

forces his girlfriend to pay him

Or that?

If you read the opening post, then you will see that that specific country allows you to do that.
You know... because everything is not about USA...

...what happen if you dont pay a fine that the court have decided that you should pay?
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Foppe posted...

JE19426 posted...

Foppe posted...

he can sue her.

When did that happen?

forces his girlfriend to pay him

Or that?

If you read the opening post, then you will see that that specific country allows you to do that.
You know... because everything is not about USA...

...what happen if you dont pay a fine that the court have decided that you should pay?

Usually, though this will depend on country, court officers will come to enforce it (ie, repo men will take goods from your house to the value of the fine). If that is not possible (you don't own enough stuff), it can be converted into a prison sentence.

Foppe posted...

If you read the opening post, then you will see that that specific country allows you to do that.

Where does it say that in OP?

You know... because everything is not about USA...

Are you trolling? Literally no one mentioned the USA.

...what happen if you dont pay a fine that the court have decided that you should pay?

Usually you go to jail. I'm not sure what that has to do with my questions.

JE19426 posted...

Foppe posted...

If you read the opening post, then you will see that that specific country allows you to do that.

Where does it say that in OP?

You know... because everything is not about USA...

Are you trolling? Literally no one mentioned the USA.

...what happen if you dont pay a fine that the court have decided that you should pay?

Usually you go to jail or they take directly out of your bank or your wages. I'm not sure what that has to do with my questions.

...reread the OP, it mentions multiple locations, the countrys currency, the country itself and that the laws exist so why are you asking these things?

Because people around here got a tendency of believing that it exist nothing outside USA, and you seemed confused about it being legal.

You asked... when did that happen, it happened in OP. Criminal complaint is equal to suing in that sentence. And then you said or what, and since OP talked about financial penalty, which is decided by the court...
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Foppe posted...

...reread the OP, it mentions multiple locations, the countrys currency, the country itself and that the laws exist so why are you asking these things?

I did read the OP. Several times it doesn't mention anyone suing anyone else. Nor does it say the victim received money from the criminal.

You asked... when did that happen, it happened in OP. Criminal complaint is equal to suing in that sentence.

No it's not. A criminal complaint and suing are fairly different things.

And then you said or what, and since OP talked about financial penalty, which is decided by the court...

The financial penalty is a fine which goes to the government not the victim.

ArchiePeck posted...

Usually, though this will depend on country, court officers will come to enforce it (ie, repo men will take goods from your house to the value of the fine). If that is not possible (you don't own enough stuff), it can be converted into a prison sentence.

Crazy to think that looking at your hubby's email could result in men coming and taking your TV
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