E-mail privacy: can I send a copy without permission?
This is not an extensive review of the field, nor is it legal advice. I wanted to inform myself of the limits of what I could do with an email that had come into my possession. One of the parties, known from the content to be very aggressive and sometimes threatening, I wasn't prepared to approach for permission, whilst the other, when I did, was happy to publish the interchange on-line. These are my notes. There is no "Right to Privacy" in Australia, but that doesn't mean there are no rights and what are available aren't clear cut. There is a long-running Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) into this. The 'interception' of a real-time or stored electronic communication is a serious crime, but that's not what we're dealing with, nor is it hacking. Nor does an interpersonal communication come under the Privacy Act or the SPAM Act. There could be 3 causes of Action for an unauthorised disclosure of an electronic communica...