Should E-Mail Fraud Cancel Privacy Rights
A court case in Maine filed by Ronald Fitch who is suing the anonymous sender of insulting e-mail is claiming identity theft is challenging the privacy right of e-mail senders. The message sent to other community residents was made to appear as if it had come from Ronald Fitch. The sender of the e-mail is fighting to not have their name disclosed by the court case. The standard for determining the need to reveal the identity of an anonymous e-communication should be higher than that the e-mail was critical.
E-mail users give up privacy when fraud is committed , Press Herald, January 13, 2005
