A Tel Aviv judge has thrown out evidence in a case between a shareholder and other principals of a company, when one presented an e-mail message that was acquired without the permission of the others. The shareholder presenting the complaint said that the other shareholders – one of them the company CEO - had connived to break up the corporation against the wishes of its board of directors. He presented as evidence a number of e-mail messages he acquired from the mailboxes of the shareholders.
The court threw out the evidence, saying that even if it was accurate, the messages could not be used, because they were acquired in violation of the privacy of the shareholders.