What are the legal responsibilities of a private investigator?

What are the legal responsibilities of a private investigator?

Danno Hanks (Private Investigator) gives expert video advice on: What are the legal responsibilities of a private investigator?; What can a private investigator expect when testifying in court?; What does 'a reasonable expectation of privacy' mean? and more...

The first legal requirement is to make sure that they're not invading somebody's privacy. Also, you need to make sure that if the particular type of investigation they're doing, is for a legitimate purpose. And if it's going to go into court, documenting their gathering of evidence so that it is admissible in court. Also, protecting the data that they gather from being comprised. Because as private investigators, we get access to probably everything you need to go into identity theft business: we get full social security numbers, drivers licence numbers, and mother's maiden names. You name it, we can get it. And you have to maintain certain amount of security on the data that you've gathered, to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.