Ting

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Chinsupakul had been married to Julian Ting (Julian)1 since 2001. Respondents Anne Ting, Jack Ting, and Nicole Ting-Yap (collectively, the Tings) are Julian’s parents and sister. Nicole lives in Malaysia, and Anne and Jack live in Australia.

1 For clarity, we refer to the individual Ting family members by first name. Julian had a computer data server in his Los Altos home that contained data owned by his parents and sister. The server could communicate with laptops and mobile devices that were paired with it by way of a secure encrypted link. Access to the server required a unique username and password. Only Julian could grant a user access. He granted his sister Nicole access to one partition of the server. Julian also stored other private information belonging to the Tings on the server. Between October 2019 and October 2020, Chinsupakul accessed Julian’s server, MacBook Pro, iPad, and iPhone without his permission, knowledge, or consent and copied, imaged, and photographed private information belonging to the Tings that was stored on these devices. In July 2020, Julian placed the server in a “locked data cage” to which only Julian had…