[ansel12]

I’ll just add - you can pass all the laws you want against this, but it won’t keep the malicious online from doing it! Same as any other law.

Burglary being illegal sure makes it easier to manage than if it were legal.

[bamahead]

True. In this case, I’d think you’d have to show some malicious misuse of the collected info before calling it a ‘crime’...and stealing someone’s identity is already a crime under other criminal codes.

Most occurences of snagging info online now are just nuisances, resulting in things like spam, junk mail, etc.

I’m definitely not advocating we criminalize a nuisance. There are already laws on the books to make the misuse a crime.