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Category Archives: Data Brokers

3 Oct

California law bans unauthorized access to telephone call logs

It is little surprise that Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 202, Privacy: telephone calling pattern record or list, making the acquisition of a telephone subscriber’s phone call records a crime.[Read more at Computerworld] Any person who purchases, sells, offers to purchase...
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18 Jul

ChoicePoint ever shifting also delivers some free online tools

There are many tasks that computers can do better than the mere shoe leather on the road. Today’s New York Times reports on research suggesting that computers make more accurate choices in decision making than company managers or human intuition....
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14 Jul

LocateCell is hit with FCC fine – more to follow?

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a fine against the Internet-based data broker of cell phone and telephone subscriber call logs, 1st Source Information Specialists (LocateCell). The press release only names one company but at least 40 Web sites...
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26 May

Federal hearing on Data Brokers and Pretexting

The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will webcast its hearing, Internet Data Brokers and Pretexting: Who has Access to Your Private Records?, Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 10 AM Washington D.C....
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3 May

FTC seeks permanent injunctions in federal court against phone subscriber data brokers

The Federal Trade Commission, with assistance from the major cell phone carriers, has filed civil suits in 5 federal jurisdictions against resellers of telephone call records, seeking to bar them from this activity and to press them to deliver, to...
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California, Cell, Data Brokers, Florida, Maryland, States, Telco, Virginia, Wyoming Leave a comment

21 Apr

Illinois AG sues New Jersey databroker

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed that state’s third lawsuit against databrokers for allegedly using fraud to obtain Illinois consumers’ cell phone records. The current action names Advanced Research Inc. of New Jersey. Read...
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4 Apr

California phone pretexting legislation advances

As I surmised, California SB 1666 has sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee on its way to the full Senate. Reported in California...
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15 Feb

California Civil Court proprietary databases become less useful

Those of you who have been following my musings over the past year on my prior blog, PI News Link, know the pitfalls of the California court indexes maintained by the data brokers. My posting, Court Records Site Surveys-Part Four,...
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Data Brokers, Public Records 7 Comments

14 Dec

Court records site surveys – part four

I want to alert you to a potential data glitch between the court records index at the court site (if they even have a site) and the data they send to the commercial providers. I conducted a name search on...
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30 Oct

Criminal records site surveys – part three

There are free sites and there are many fee sites to research names in criminal records indexes. When you need to use a fee site you want one that is most specific to your needs but is comprehensive. Keep in...
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