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14 Sep

Pretexting phone records:The California Angle

The California Attorney General asserts he will investigate whether phone records of Hewlett-Packard Board members and journalists were obtained in violation of California Penal Code 530.5 to 530.8, the identity theft law. The puffery will surely help him garner votes...
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California, Personal Data, States 1 Comment

7 Sep

Internal HP food toss stirs pretexting and phone records pot

The news is awash with the corporate in-fighting at Hewlett-Packard, raised to the level of mass appeal because the HP Board apparently initiated an investigation in which Directors’ telephone subscriber records were obtained by pretexting the telephone company. The Daily...
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25 Aug

AT&T sues for answers; Your world. Delivered. To whom?

The earlier flurry of fines and lawsuits against brokers of telephone subscriber records has continued with this recent gust from AT&T. The company has filed suit in federal court in Texas against 25 entities, which are as yet, unnamed. AT&T,...
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14 Aug

Find background on people through Internet search patterns

Researchers for the Internet service provider, America Online, recently released logs of searches conducted by site subscribers, which has been posted on the Web. The data is searchable by search terms, the domain address from which the searcher came to...
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17 Jul

Financial background investigations

The National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA), a “free national search site to reunite you with your unclaimed property maintained by the state officials who are safeguarding it” links to state, federal, private and Canadian agencies to which personal...
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Business, Personal Data 2 Comments

6 Jul

Gathering personal information is now a felony in Illinois

The most far reaching “identity theft” legislation, potentially criminalizing the act of information gathering, has been signed into law, codified in the Illinois criminal code as Public Act 094-1008. An exception is included for private investigators, who may still use...
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Criminal, Illinois, Legislation, Personal Data, States 1 Comment

2 Jul

So goes the country: outlawing investigative deception in California

The significant, far-reaching SB 1666, Personal Information: Obtaining Information, California legislation sponsored by Sen. Bowen, aims to make pretexting and subterfuge illegal, eliminating a research tool that can protect the privacy of the very people the bill claims to champion....
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Legislation, Personal Data 2 Comments

23 May

Privacy concerns press Congress to legislate vehicle black box data recorders

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is taking a hands-off approach to mandating the installation of vehicle data recorders, -the manufacturer and after market installed safety and crash data monitoring devices- preferring legislation to regulation. The “black box” recorder...
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17 May

GAO recommends truncating social security numbers available to information resellers

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report on its recommendations to Congress for creating standards for truncating Social Security Numbers. The report, Social Security Numbers: Internet Resellers Provide Few Full SSNs, but Congress Should Consider Enacting Standards for...
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12 May

Summary of US House hearing on the uses of the Social Security Number

It wasn’t the best of times, but it was incrementally better than the worst. The Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing yesterday recapped prior discussions in the legislature about a...
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