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Hidesight: Email snoop writes law text then breaks it

High Court judge rules law does not extend to personal documents that are clearly irrelevant to a bankruptcy case.

Fri, 07 Apr 2017

I was nonplussed to learn last year that a civil servant had had hundreds of my personal emails sitting on a laptop kept in a cupboard beside his desk.

Indeed, he admitted to “looking at a few emails to and from Rodney Hide.”

He had no warrant. I was never informed. My expectation was that my

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