Marital Communications are “Essential to the Preservation of Marriage” – Unless Made from a Workplace Computer

Gilbert S. Keteltas writes:

Communications between spouses are typically accorded a “marital communications privilege” because they are “regarded as so essential to the preservation of the marriage relationship as to outweigh the disadvantages to the administration of justice which the privilege entails.”  But marital communications to or from a workplace computer just became less privileged – at least in the Fourth Circuit.

Read more about United States v. Hamilton on Data Privacy Monitor.