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US Judge Bars Unauthorized Sales of Phone Records

Posted by kdawson on from the look-me-in-the-eye dept.

The Register delivers the good news that a US federal judge had slapped down the practice of pretexting and ordered a Wyoming company to pay almost $200,000; AccuSearch was also permanently barred from selling individuals' phone records without their permission. The FTC had filed suit in 2006 against the company and four others. AccuSearch had advertised a service that made phone records of any individual available for a fee. The current article makes no mention of whatever became of the other four accused data brokers.

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  1. Re:Paint me stupid. by corsec67 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the current government, who cares about a "warrant"? Not like that means anything anymore. Especially to a phone company.

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  2. Not such a big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The 3 letter agencies don't have to buy their phone records

  3. Re:Other data brokers? by gbobeck · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought their real names were the following:

    AT&T
    AARP
    ACM (thats Association For Computing Machinery)
    Publisher's Clearinghouse

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  4. Paint me stupid too by erareno · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is how spammers get your number, I'm guessing? If so, does this mean no more phone spam? *Awaits the inevitable denial of such high hopes*

  5. Wait... by Shifty+Jim · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This was legal to begin with? Umm... Yeah.

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