How safe are your cellphone records?
Somewhere around the beginning of the year there was some startling information being reported about companies that were able to sell your cellphone records to just about anyone who would pay the fee.
Many reports were made that while the services may not be strictly illegal, the means that they were getting the records were. I wrote a post a few weeks ago about privacy rights, and I started to put something in it about this practice. I decided not to add it, mainly because I hadn’t heard anything new since the first reports. I did know that it had touched off privacy concerns with Washington lawmakers and others around the nation.
That was until now. The Federal Trade Commission has filed suits against five companies seeking to stop the sales of those records. Some of these same companies have had suits filed against them by the three major cellphone carriers, Sprint Nextel Corp., Cingular Wireless LLC, and Verizon Wireless.
Additional information on this can be found on this article from the Washington Post.
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