Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records

An anonymous reader writes to let us know that Verizon Wireless is planning to share its customers' calling records (called CPNI) with "our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries." The article explains that CPNI "includes the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and time spent on each call, among other data." Some subscribers, it's not known if it's all of them, received a letter in the mail giving them 30 days to opt out of this sharing by calling 1-800-333-9956. Skydeck, a mobile and wireless services company, seems to have been the first to call attention to the Verizon initiative on their blog; they also posted a scan of the letter (sideways PDF) from Verizon.

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In Case You're Wondering

[Effugas]

This is why it only costs $100 to buy your telephone records.

McNealy's law, people. You have no privacy, get over it.

--Dan

Re:Because an OPT IN would be the right thing to d

[ScrewMaster]

Have you ever read "The Humanoids" by Jack Williamson? The kind of world it portrays is like the one you describe, only much worse.