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FL Court Rules Against Spouse-Installed Spyware

Posted by timothy on from the well-that's-nice-of-them dept.

idobi writes "A Florida court ruled that it was illegal for a wife to install spyware on her husband's computer, in order to catch him in an extramarital affair. The three judge panel barred the woman from using the chat records from being introduced as evidence in the divorce proceedings. The court ruled that the software, Spector, violated Florida's wiretapping law - which states that it is criminal to 'intentionally intercept' any 'electronic communication.'"

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  1. Community Property State? by darthmundt · · Score: 5, Informative
    According to this site, "Florida is an "equitable distribution" state. Each spouse can retain their non-marital property. Non-marital property is all property acquired prior to the marriage, or acquired by gift or inheritance, or any property that the spouses agree is non-marital property in a written agreement."

    Unless the PC was his before the marraige, the whole PC is 'theirs' and she can install whatever she wants on it.

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  2. Similar Parental Rights Case by Chokai · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was recently a case in Washington State where a suspicious mother had picked up the phone to listen to her daughter's conversation with one of her friends. Well it turns out the friend was a suspect in a robbery and the mother was called to testify. Now the testemony has been ruled inadmissible for similar reasons.