Do you happen to know the name of the case? I would be interested in seeing what this case was about.

I have a difficult time seeing the privacy issue here for two reasons. First, there was no reasonable expectation of privacy as letters to the editor can be published. Second, what are the damages?

My guess is that there is something more to the issue.

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>There was actually a case recently where a woman wrote a letter to the editor, via email, and the editor forwarded her email in whole (including her address) to the author of the article she was writing about. The author responded directly to her email address.
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>She sued for invasion of privacy and won.
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>>>>Bringing an email I sent to a friend to the public will indeed be quite an offensive act towards me. I'm not sure about an email I sent to someone who applied for a job in my shop. It's my feeling that it's not really in the private domain. Professional companies know this mechanism and it forces them to reply 'correctly' to applicants.
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>>>I have no idea whether the same rules apply to emails, but in the US, a letter belongs to the person who wrote it, not to the recipient. So, to publish the letter, the recipient must get the permission of the sender.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Tamar,
>>I think you're refering to 'copyright for authors'. But as you know this right has some counterparts, like 'freedom of speech' and 'freedom of the press'. Those rights enable us to publish (parts of) texts. Of course, if the author goes to court, then the 'publisher' must come with a plausible justification for the act of publishing.