No one would be suing. This would be criminal. I was thinking that a simple way this would be illegal in the US would be "[accessing] a computer without autho

No one would be suing. This would be criminal. I was thinking that a simple way this would be illegal in the US would be "[accessing] a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains information from any protected computer" See a2C here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#Criminal_offenses_under_the_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#C... I'd assume you can make a decent case that the person only authorized the installation of a piece of software, not the gathering of identifying information. IP addresses can be used as identifying information especially when paired with a timestamp. Being an American citizen living in the US I would not want my name on this paper.