"She also obtained Bennington's 34-page Verizon phone bill, which included the history of his phone usage as well as the telephone numbers of his band mates, friends and family. Townsend used this information to phone Bennington's wife and threaten her."
She also wrote down his license plate and demanded the registration details on a false claim for a fiver. DVLA said 'no problem, is there any other privileged information we are entrusted with that you'd like to help yourself to?'
Then she joined the local council to gain access to his email headers, telephone logs, ISP surfing history and a bunch of other data not covered specifically protected under RIPA, all the companies concerned happily obliged by handing over the data in secret. Some even sent the whole .MBX file given access to his emails passwords and bank info.
Once she had his GSM cell phone location data, she bugged every place he went.
Finally her boss at the council checked the data requests she'd been sending up stairs, and she was given a severe talking too in a stern manner.
The Data Protection agency stepped in! "You've been very naughty young woman, collecting all the personal information without paying you £35 data collectors fee!".