People v. Jacobs

Defendant-appellant is a professional photographer. He conceived it to be to his professional advantage to learn the names and home addresses of passengers debarking from ocean liners at New York City, in order that he might take and more easily market their photographs in pursuit *317of his profession. Lists of inbound passengers, known as passenger manifests, are required by Federal statute and regulation to be delivered by incoming vessels to the customs, immigration and public health authorities. These lists contain the street addresses of returning residents of this country throughout the…