I quit company A with a no future business dealings provision in my contract. I worked in exchange for ownership of software for two of the owners of company A who had a company B. Unknown to me and over false denials one of the owners of company B was secretly using company A equipment to record my calls and saving all of my emails on company A's servers. I was never advised of this. When he informed me someone saw an email he claimed it was because it was open on his monitor. Since I worked in exchange for software am I an employee? or an owner since there is no valid formal business document? I am in a one party state - my business partner has been allowing my nemesis his business partner at company A to routinely monitor my phone and email communication, none of which have anything to do with company A. Recently, they threatened to reveal the content of my emails and phone calls to my husband if I didn't back off of filing a lawsuit against company A for violations of my exit agreement. I did not respond and they did in fact call my husband and mixed fact with extreme lies to indicate an intimacy that had not occurred and imputing a loathsome disease. I am assuming that common law tort will apply but is this does this in anyway - trigger a wiretapping violation?

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