Senate Panel Approves Phone-Records Privacy Bill
Grant Gross writes on InfoWorld:
A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday approved a bill that would outlaw the practice of posing as a telephone or mobile phone customer to obtain phone records.More here.
The practice, called pretexting, is allegedly used by a number of online companies that sell phone records. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's bill makes it illegal to acquire, use or sell a person’s confidential phone records without that person’s written consent.
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