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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

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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6 Feb

Does your company or law firm have guidelines on the use of pretexting?

The government pursuit of private investigators, lawyers and corporate officers caught in the HP and Pellicano imbroglios have raised awareness of some off-color investigative practices. Many of these – pretexting for customer telephone records and obtaining personal financial documents without...
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Personal Data, Research Methods 1 Comment

9 Dec

Pretexting for Telephone Records One Step Closer to Becoming a Federal Crime

It may soon become a federal crime to obtain a person’s telephone records. The Senate made that possible Friday night when they approved legislation similar to a bill passed by the House. The Senate bill increases the proposed fine to...
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Government, Legislation, PI Business, PIs In the News, Privacy, Regulation 6 Comments

25 Nov

Pretexting may not be pretty but often beats the alternative

The article, How Pretexting Helped Serve Divorce Papers on a Runaway Mother, recounts the all too common experience of a process server attempting to get legal papers to a party to a lawsuit, demonstrating why an outright ban on pretexting...
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26 Sep

U.S. House Hearings on phone records and pretexting

Listen to the live Webcast, Hewlett-Packard’s Pretexting Scandal, followed in relentless pursuit by Internet Data Brokers and Pretexting: Who Has Access to Your Private Records? — Hearings of The U.S House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and...
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20 Sep

HP Pretext documents delivered to Congress reveal reach of HP leak investigation

Purchasers of subscriber telephone records extend into multiple industries, among them are major corporations. The same names of providers of the telco records keep reappearing, suggesting that companies, such as Action Research Group, based in Florida, are the new Touch...
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18 Sep

HP pretexting debacle and reality journalism

The methods that HP contractors used to secure telephone call logs, “the pretext story”, repeated ad infinitum, has reporters looking for new approaches to this story. The San Jose Mercury News has posted the transcript of a call to Verizon...
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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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