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Thanks for the info. I'm mostly more concerned with privacy laws than copyright, since I think those laws are much more applicable here.

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Oh, OK. I can't comment on your facts specifically, so the links below just deal with privacy in general.

For an introduction to the issues and the laws, read this law review article. Michael Froomkin, Cyberspace and Privacy: A New Legal Paradigm? The Death of Privacy?, 52 STAN. L. REV. 1461 (2000). http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/privacy-deathof....

This case deals with exceeding authorized access on a website: Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., 302 F.3d 868 (9th Cir. 2002) http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case32.cfm

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