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29 May

FTC Permanently Halts ‘Pretexting’ Scheme

Defendants Barred From Obtaining or Selling Consumers’ Phone Records to Third Parties The Federal Trade Commission has put a permanent halt to an operation that allegedly obtained consumers’ confidential phone records without their knowledge or consent and sold them to...
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Data Brokers, Government, Litigation, PIs In the News, Public Records 2 Comments

30 Mar

Guide to phone records privacy

Selected Laws Governing the Disclosure of Customer Phone Records by Telecommunications Carriers, a recently released Congressional Research Service report, summarizes the laws, legislation and congressional actions related to telephone call log records. The Federation of American Scientists has a database...
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Government, Legislation, Litigation, Personal Data, Privacy, Regulation, Telco Leave a comment

9 May

Private Investigators in Oregon Might Become Part of Landmark Case

It appears that a case involving the hiring of an out of town private investigator on a death penalty case may have an impact on how the state pays court appointed investigators. It all started when a Hillsboro lawyer hired...
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Government, Legislation, Litigation, Oregon, PIs In the News, Public Records 6 Comments

19 Apr

This week in public records: Pennsylvania, Texas, Nevada

Philadelphia will be the first region in Pennsylvania to implement an automated inmate release telephone notification. The service, which just covers local jails, will be available to anyone, not just crime victims, when it goes into operation in June 2007....
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Criminal, Litigation, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Public Records, Texas 1 Comment

17 Apr

A slew of data brokers settle with AT&T

Data brokers who were sued last year by AT&T for purloining customer telephone records have settled with the telecommunications company. The 13 defendants were not initially named in AT&T Services, Inc. v. John Doe, filed in District Courts in Texas...
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5 Apr

Once again, the wealthy seek to alter court records

Corporate malefactors angle to “clean up” mentions of their names in court records. The powerful and the fearful each have their reasons… From AP: Residential Funding wants Heffernan’s claims about who stiffed employees and which name names, stricken from the...
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14 Mar

Private Investigators Involved in H-P Scandal to Avoid Jail.

According to numerous wire releases, it appears that the private investigators implicated in the Hewlett-Packard Co. scandal, will avoid jail time in a no contest plea deal to misdemeanor charges on fraudulent wire communications in California. In a statement issued...
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Government, Legislation, Litigation, Personal Data, Public Records 7 Comments

9 Mar

Congressional testimony and litigation on pretexting

The Federal Trade Commission has settled another telephone pretexting case, Federal Trade Commission, Plaintiff, v. Information Search, Inc. and David J. Kacala, individually and as an officer of Information Search, Inc., Defendants. The FTC will collect $3000 from the telephone...
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2 Mar

Lawn Mowing Ex-policeman Cannot Claim Spy Breach by Private Eyes

The laws of conducting surveillance on insurance claimants can vary by state and even by country. An article appearing in Out-Law.com highlights the potential conflict of British laws that involve government surveillance and verifying the validity of an insurance claim....
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Government, International, Litigation 1 Comment

28 Feb

California Supreme Court ruling on misrepresentation and invasion of privacy

The California Supreme Court has ruled that a county trial court must determine whether a psychologist used subterfuge to obtain an interview with the foster mother of a woman who had claimed as an adult a repressed memory of childhood...
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California, Litigation, Personal Data, Privacy, States 1 Comment

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