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Cell Phone Records For Sale

POSTED: 4:33 pm EST January 20, 2006

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Phone calls made on cellular phones may
not be as private as many people believe. In fact, anyone with
a person's cell phone number and a credit card can find out
whom the cell phone's owner talked to and for how long.

It's simple: Just search "cell phone trace" on the Web and you
will find more than 40 companies that can do the job. For
about a $100 they can tell you who someone talked to, how
long they talked, and more.

Sen. Bill Nelson recently introduced legislation trying to
make it illegal for companies to share cell phone records
with outside parties.

"Just think, if somebody knows every person you are calling,
they can see the pattern of your activity. They can see
your personal friendships. They can see where you go to visit.
They can see the people you do financial transactions with,"
Nelson said. "It completely opens you, exposed naked, to
people who want to do bad things."

The information of whom you called is usually sent to you
every month, and it's supposed to be private.

How do these Internet companies get that information? Nelson
said they lie to the phone companies by claiming to be you.

"This is no fooling time. You can't do this kind of activity.
That is what this law is going to say," Nelson said.

Nelson said if the law is approved, those involved in
disclosing cellular phone records to outsiders may be fined
or face jail time.
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> How do these Internet companies get that information? Nelson
> said they lie to the phone companies by claiming to be you.
>
> "This is no fooling time. You can't do this kind of activity.
> That is what this law is going to say," Nelson said.

Wouldn't this ALREADY be against the law?

"Larry Bud" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> > How do these Internet companies get that information? Nelson
> > said they lie to the phone companies by claiming to be you.
> >
> > "This is no fooling time. You can't do this kind of activity.
> > That is what this law is going to say," Nelson said.
>
> Wouldn't this ALREADY be against the law?
>
On Jan. 13, Cingular obtained a temporary restraining order against two
companies, Data Find Solutions, Inc. and 1st Source Information Specialists,
Inc. Several weeks ago, Cingular filed a civil lawsuit alleging that these
companies unlawfully obtained and disseminated Cingular customer records.

The court has now granted Cingular's request for a temporary restraining
order to halt these companies' ability to obtain and sell Cingular customer
records.

Cliff wrote:
> "Larry Bud" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>> How do these Internet companies get that information?
>>> Nelson said they lie to the phone companies by claiming
>>> to be you.
>>>
>>> "This is no fooling time. You can't do this kind of
>>> activity. That is what this law is going to say,"
>>> Nelson said.
>>
>> Wouldn't this ALREADY be against the law?
>>
> On Jan. 13, Cingular obtained a temporary restraining
> order against two companies, Data Find Solutions, Inc.
> and 1st Source Information Specialists, Inc. Several
> weeks ago, Cingular filed a civil lawsuit alleging that
> these companies unlawfully obtained and disseminated
> Cingular customer records.
>
> The court has now granted Cingular's request for a
> temporary restraining order to halt these companies'
> ability to obtain and sell Cingular customer records.

Is this the same Cingular that agreed to submit their
database to the cellular 411 directory?

-Quick