Computer Crimes: An employee who deletes email data after leaving work is not liable.

The issue of the use of IT and telematic tools by employees of companies or public bodies continues to generate legal proceedings, particularly regarding the employee's email inbox.

The singular ruling by the Second Section of the Criminal Court of Cassation on the deletion of the contents of an email account by an employee summarily dismissed fits into this framework.

The Supreme Court, in a ruling filed on September 15, acquitted an employee who, on the day of her summary dismissal, had accessed the company's assigned computer using her own password and deleted the correspondence.

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