06 Mar Your trash is fair game!
Posted at 09:34h
in Privacy & Security
The Supreme Court has ruled that information in your trash is “fair game” to anyone. The current law in the United States (federal as well as state law) is that: a person has no reasonable expectation of privacy for contents of garbage; and a person has relinquished any property interest in garbage, even when it sits in metal trash cans or opaque plastic bags at the person’s home awaiting collection.