The Supreme Court of Argentina ruled that spying on Facebook,
email and the cell phone contacts is a federal crime. The decision
came out of a dispute between two courts (in the case of a woman
who denounced her former partner for entering in her social media
account, checking her e-mails and copying the SIM of her cell phone
with all the contacts. The case was brought before, the Supreme
Court to resolve the after two courts fought for this
case.
Federal Judge Luis Rodríguez rejected the case because,
in his opinion, "there is no interest in the case that
transcends the strictly individual, or any circumstance capable of
founding federal intervention." The attorney general Eduardo
Casal alleged that "the social network user and the e-mails
constitute an electronic communication or computer data of
restricted access, with access only possible through a means that
by its own characteristics is within the services of
telecommunications." For this reason, Mr. Casal
