Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday July 22, 2006 @11:45AM from the smash-and-grab dept.

An anonymous reader writes "FBI agents today arrested Steven Rambam, the owner of a company that bills itself as the largest privately held online investigative service in the United States, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog. From the story: 'Rambam was arrested this afternoon by FBI agents just moments before he was to lead a panel discussion on privacy here at the HOPE hacker conference in New York City. Rambam and three other panelists were to discuss how they dug up -- in just 4.5 hours of searching private and public databases -- more than 500 pages worth of data on HOPE attendee Rick Dakan, who agreed to be the guinea pig for the project.'"

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Re:Any information on charges? by teslar · 2006-07-22 11:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

AFAIK, digging up information on a willing person and presenting isn't illegal.

That depends entirely on where you go digging and how you go digging. The person on whom you're finding information might be ok with it, the people whose systems you've broken into to do so won't be.