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California: Phone Privacy Bill on Track

Sarah Jane Tribble writes in The Mercury News:

A bill that would effectively make pretexting -- the act of pretending to be someone else in order to get that person's phone records -- illegal was approved by state legislators in August and awaits Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's approval.

While the bill's author, state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, had been working on it for more than a year, its potential passage arrives at a time when gathering phone records under false pretenses is at the forefront of Silicon Valley minds.

posted by Fergie @ 9/08/2006 10:25:00 AM