The police there said they received information that 26-year-old Donald Townsend was seeking sex with minors that he met online. The novel legal issue of how to characterize e-mail communication arose in a recent criminal case in Washington's Spokane County. But others argue that e-mail messages by their nature are forwarded and stored on a recipient's computer, so e-mail users automatically agree to the recording of their messages when they choose the medium. That decision, which appears to be the first of its kind, represents a bad precedent for online privacy, some legal experts say. Now a judge in Washington, one of those privacy-conscious states, has ruled that the state's law does not apply to the new world of e-mail and online chats. KAPLAN Judge Says Recording of Electronic Chats Is Legal n 12 states, it is illegal to record your own telephone conversations without the consent of the person at the other end of the line.
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