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Category Archives: Telco

16 May

Oklahoma governor signs telephone pretext legislation

Oklahoma legislation, HB 2903 – An Act relating to telephone records, prohibiting certain acts with telephone records without the authorization of the customer, has been signed into law, going into affect November 1, 2006. Procuring or receiving 10 or more...
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14 May

Federal snoops seek exception – phone pretexting bill withdrawn

HR 4943, To prohibit fraudulent access to telephone records, which was expected to be approved by Congress, has been withdrawn from a House vote, perhaps in light of the recently revealed National Security Agency program collecting telephone activity information without...
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9 May

Arizona governor signs phone pretext bill

Arizona Governor Napolitano signed HB 2785, Telephone Records, Unauthorized Sale Prohibited, into law this week. The Arizona law defines civil sanctions and classifies unauthorized access of telephone account information as a misdemeanor. As in other states, Arizona expands law enforcement...
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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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2 May

Debt collectors and cops do it – How will Congress wiggle off THAT hook?

Data brokers, responding to subpoenas issued by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee requesting their customer lists are delivering some surprising material. Apparently, law enforcement is among the customers of the resellers of customer phone records, depending on them...
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27 Apr

Federal telephone records act sails through House of Representatives

The federal legislation that will criminalize unauthorized access to telephone customer data is steaming toward passage. HR 4709, Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 passed the House by 409 to 0, with 23 representatives not voting. I’d say...
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27 Apr

Colorado data brokers –more than one bad rap

A Colorado newspaper has revisited a couple of sore subjects for private investigators: the closure of that states’ public records, which I detailed last month [read RCFP’s update]; the information broker whose high profile antics set in motion the Gramm-Leach-Bliley...
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23 Apr

Florida legislature nixes unauthorized access to telephone records

The Florida legislature has added its imprint to the mounting stack of bills that state governments have passed which outlaw acquiring or selling telephone customer account information. House bill 871: Relating to Telephone Calling Records is summarized: Telephone Calling Records;...
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2 Apr

Phone subscriber restriction bill moves to the Senate

The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has approved Senate bill 2389 (the current version starts on page 18), Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act, which will now be sent to the full Senate for consideration. The press release...
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22 Mar

Government challenges telephone number spoofing

Close on the heels of the legislation, regulation and litigation over the privacy of telephone subscriber information is the examination of “caller-id spoofing”. The Florida Attorney General has issued subpoenas to a website that claims to sell “calling cards that...
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