Civil Litigation
Oct. 27, 2016
Software manufacturer takes hit for jealous husband
A federal appellate court recently held that a software company could be held liable for Wiretap Act violations when a jealous husband installed spyware on his wife's computer.
Who would have guessed that a husband spying on his wife could result in liability for a software manufacturer? Well, this summer, Awareness Technologies found out the hard way that companies can be held liable for the acts of a jealous spouse. In Luis v. Zang, a divided panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a software manufacturer whose product was used by a jealous spouse to intercept his wife's electronic communications in real time could be liable to a third...
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