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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by hedora on Saturday April 01, 2023 @10:48AM (#35400710)
The term of art is "Chattle", as in "Trespass on Chattle". e.g., start by reading section IIa of this:

https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=316...

Essentially, Intel employees are 'chattle', and while communicating with them doesn't transfer ownership or control of them away from Intel, it does interfere with Intel's ongoing use of them.

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by jrootabega on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:19AM (#35400964)
The spirit is the same, but I don't think we're talking about the same thing. It's "chattel", and according to wikipedia, for whatever that's worth, it's "trespass to chattels".

I didn't see any reference there about treating people in a customer relationship as the "chattel" referred to in this law.

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Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock... by hedora on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:39AM (#35411683)
It wasn’t originally meant to be applied to employees. That’s a modern interpretation. It seems inevitable that some court will extend the interpretation to customers too.
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