Federal snoops seek exception – phone pretexting bill withdrawn
May 14th, 2006 | Author: Tamara Thompson
HR 4943, To prohibit fraudulent access to telephone records, which was expected to be approved by Congress, has been withdrawn from a House vote, perhaps in light of the recently revealed National Security Agency program collecting telephone activity information without a subpoena or the subscriber’s authorization.
I previously reported on this and an other related House bill.
Letter from Ed Markey to Dennis Hastert inquiring about the disappearance of HR 4943.
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Prosecution monitoring defense telephone calls? Competitive intelligence gathering tool? Or other possibilities that are suggested in the government use of reporter’s telephone call records. Here’s the original blog entry by ABC:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html
Relates that the Bush admin states it is legal to get the numbers that are being called by reporters.
Interesting, and may be usable as a partial defense by those companies being hit by the FTC/DoJ on the phone records scare. http://tinyurl.com/l2kcf