Is it illegal to read old text messages with your wife?

1, eavesdropping is illegal. No matter whether the husband suspects his wife or the wife suspects her husband, you can't eavesdrop or secretly record to obtain so-called information or evidence, because this kind of behavior is illegal, and both husband and wife have the right to privacy. You can't use eavesdropping equipment to obtain the private information of the other party.

2. Similarly, the court will not accept the wiretapping recording as evidence, because it does not conform to the legitimacy characteristics of the three characteristics of evidence.