There was a very interesting court case in the UK in June of this year (2008), whereby a large recruiting company called Hays sued an ex-employee for the return of his database of contacts after he left the firm and set up a competing company. In the High Court, Hays argued that the ex-employee had unlawfully used confidential company client email addresses to create his own database in anticipation of starting his new business venture.

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