First I'd like to say I'm going through a divorce, and am trying to find out if I have any privacy rights with deleted emails whuch were password protected.
Oklahoma In my divorce I downloaded a password protected email on to my computer, After reading the email I right clicked and deleted the file.
The reason I said my computer is when I split up with the wife I left the home. One of the very vew items besides clothing I took the laptop.
The day I left I filed for divorce. During first court date she had a court order to have a forensics lab copy the hard drive, saying the laptop was community property. All evidence they have from the computer came from deleted files. My question is I do not believe they could use those files if they were password protected, without getting some other court order to do so. But where does a deleted file fall into place.