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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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This week in public records: California – Connecticut – North Carolina – Nebraska – New York – Minnesota
The Los Angeles County Superior Court has ruled that church personnel files of priests accused of molesting children may be released to the public, whether or not there was a criminal prosecution. The decision affects a small number of clergy...
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New FCC rules limit disclosure of telephone customer personal information
The Federal Communications Commission has issued new rules related to the disclosure of the personal telephone records of consumers. There are some specific new requirements for the carriers: – Carriers are prohibited from releasing a customer’s phone call records when...
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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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FTC and FCC activity on telephone accounts
The Federal Trade Commission has sought a permanent injunction against Action Research Group and Eye In the Sky Investigations for obtaining and selling to third parties confidential customer phone records in violation of the FTC Act prohibiting deceptive acts. Federal...
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Private Investigator in H-P Scandal Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft and Conspiracy
Private investigator, Bryan Wagner, of Littleton, Colorado pleaded guilty on Friday to identity theft and conspiracy charges in United States District Court in San Jose. His sentencing is now scheduled for June 20 in San Jose federal court. The private...
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FTC phone and financial records cases
The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement of its complaint against Integrity Security & Investigation Services for “unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce” by obtaining telephone customer data and credit card purchase records. Four other similar...
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California AG indicts executives and data brokers for identity theft
The legitimate corporate governance issues that prompted the leak investigation by Hewlett-Packard has fallen from the front pages, now covered with the long expected indictments by the California Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, who is a current candidate for State Treasurer....
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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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