Hacking their computer obviously I do believe that's literally a crime.
Lying is just lying and catfishing is lying. Obviously not illegal because how would any fiction work if it was illegal to tell a lie?
Morally as well I can't think of a benign example of hacking into someone's computer. It's not like a fat woman pretending to be a 21 year old stunner in a chatroom, I can't honestly say that bothers me. We should expect that it's not really a 21 year old stunner.
And it couldn't be done. What would we do? Extend the trade descriptions act to cover casual chatter between private citizens? A precondition of this would be to make it so everybody is paid to talk to us. You have the legal right when purchasing for the purchased to be accurately described. But in free society not.
You would have to merge property and people into the same thing. But because human beings exist as something other than property freedom of expression accepts people in the understanding of buyer beware. Buyer beware actually applies when no money is changing hands. A person can be a fraud, liar and fake without committing a crime or even being a bad person - which is just as well because everybody lies.
Catfishing because you're lonely will never be illegal like catfishing for money is, or impersonating a police officer is illegal when done in a serious way where you literally arrest people. Dressing up as a cop in the bedroom is not illegal for the same reason that catfishing is not illegal.
I would argue that make-up itself is deceptive to have the whole truth and nothing but the truth is an act of cowardice. Particularly on a first date. It's supposed to be an unknown they're allowed to have privacy. This is why make up and catfishing are acceptable, but using her laptop as a window into her brain is not. I would throw away a relationship because she's been spying on me but I can't imagine not wishing to associate with a friend anymore because they've been catfishing. The impersonal masks of society do not upset me like spying does.
And yet I would grade it. Pretending to be a celebrity on the one hand with pretending someone you already know on the other. Catfishing would be bother me in so much as it relates to privacy. I admit that pretending to be someone you already know who is not at all in the public domain is frankly too weird.
For example it is immoral to send nudes that can NOT be found on Google. It would have to be in some sense a public figure someone who wanted their privacy violated, someone who has chosen these things to happen.
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