There's plenty of precedent to find dumpster diving (or more specifically using sensitive information obtained that way) unlawful in a variety of situations. Mo

There's plenty of precedent to find dumpster diving (or more specifically using sensitive information obtained that way) unlawful in a variety of situations. Most precedent in support of dumpster diving for sensitive information is in the context of law enforcement searches which are regarded somewhat differently by courts than a random individual obtaining sensitive information with questionable intent. Just Wikipedia mentions a case in which the dumpster-diver was ordered to pay damages in response to sensitive information retrieved by dumpster diving. It's just doesn't seem at all clear-cut that what the person here did is legal.