A US appeals court has ruled that a company that provides e-mail service has the right to copy and read any message bound for its customers.
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As a result, companies or employers that own the computers are free to intercept messages before they are received by customers, it said.
Peter B Swire, an Ohio State University Law Professor who was a privacy advisor in the Clinton administration, said
that the ruling means that an e-mail provider "can intercept all your e-mail with impunity, and can read them and use them for his own business purposes."
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