Disclosures that companies are selling private phone records have lawmakers and federal regulators trying to halt the practice. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., says he will work with the head of the Senate Commerce Committee on a bill to criminalize such actions. Pretexting -- a method by which data brokers pretend to be customers to get phone companies to release information -- is illegal when done to obtain financial data. But there's no specific law against pretexting for phone records.
January 25, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Disclosures that companies are selling private phone records have lawmakers and federal regulators moving to try to halt the practice.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said in a statement Monday that he will work with the head of the Senate Commerce Committee, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on a bill to criminalize the practice.
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