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Cops Also Using Information Thieves to Get Phone Records

Avni Patel reports on ABC News' "The Blotter":

Federal and local law enforcement agencies have bought mobile phone and other personal records from controversial Internet "data brokers," according to congressional investigators now looking into whether questionable practices were used by the Hewlitt-Packard company.

HP's chairman has resigned, and the California attorney general has opened a criminal investigation in the wake of revelations that the company obtained phone records of board members suspected of leaking information to reporters.

In response to a congressional subpoena, PDJ Services, a data broker in Texas, produced documents showing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service had used their services. Another seller, Advanced Research, Inc., included the FBI on its list of clients.

posted by Fergie @ 9/20/2006 11:21:00 AM