Provided, of course, you're not trespassing to get to it.
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] "Dumpster-diving" - is it illegal?
Paul Ferguson on Friday, April 01, 2005 at 3:49 PM said:-
> On the other hand the term "identity theft" is not theft at all, only
> the removal of rubbish, say a credit card receipt from a rubbish bin
> is theft not the use of the personal data.
Which seems to indicate that taking a digital image of any information
forming material contained in a rubbish bin would be a completely legal
act, as nothing would be removed.
Ian W
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> Subject: Re: "Dumpster-diving" - is it illegal?
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>
> Hi Su
> Yes you are right,
> It's plain and simple theft.
>
> On the other hand the term "identity theft" is not theft at
> all, only the removal of rubbish, say a credit card receipt
> from a rubbish bin is theft not the use of the personal data.
>
> Paul Ferguson
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> W1R 5PA Registered Number: 2676976 on 1/4/05 3:22 PM, Su
> Goulding at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > A good Friday afternoon question.
> >
> > Is the act of going through another person's - or company's
> - rubbish
> > and removing items illegal in itself?
> >
> > It seems that what you do afterwards with the items retrieved might
> > well be. A quick web search turned up the case of King v
> DPP, where a
> > stalker was penalised on the basis of the Prevention of Harrassment
> > Act, but here there was no indication that the act of
> removal of items
> > from household rubbish bags was an illegal act - unlike the
> resulting
> > harrassment of his victim.
> >
> > I had a vague idea that rubbish continues to belong to you
> until it is
> > removed by an approved authority, usually the council, but so far I
> > haven't been able to confirm it. Maybe some of the fine brains out
> > there know otherwise?
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