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by DanBC 4542 days ago
A judge tells me not to contact X.

I should be hyperaware of anything around "contact" - this includes automatic systems.

There are not many systems that will access your contact list wihtout permission.

There are not many systems that will then send a contact to everyone on that list without permission.

So a person has to take several steps:

1) not remove X's contact details

2) allow access to contact list

2a) allow contact to happen

(2 and 2a are often bundled into on step).

This feels really clear to me. But perhaps we need to give a "single accidental blerate contact exemption" - this allows someone to male a mistake once, but not to abuse the system by joining dozens of networks to send many many requests.

It should be noted that the changing definition of contact isn't particulay new.

Bob is givi g a restraining order, so he starts shopping i. A new part of town. He doesn't know that Ann uas got a job there. He will be thought of as breaking the order until he. An explain that he had no way of knowing that Ann worked there.

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I would still expect the state to have to prove that he actually sent the invite. They can do this easily enough, issuing a subpoena for a criminal case to Google under the stored communications act or a search warrant under the same act if it is necessary. If Google doesn't have records to show that a link was actually clicked on, or the records don't show that, no violation.