$100 Will Get You Anyone’s Cell Phone Records
by Big Dog on Jan 17, 2006 at 20:09 Political
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) plans to introduce legislation in the Senate tomorrow that would make it a felony to obtain customer information from a telephone-service provider by pretending to be someone else, a practice called “pretexting,” widely believed to be a chief way these companies accessing the data.
This should not comfort anyone because Schumer is the guy who introduced legislation making it illegal to use a Social Security Number for identity theft and then allowed his staffers to illegally use the Social Security Number of Maryland’s Michael Steele to obtain Steele’s credit report. You can see that the law does not really matter to Mr. Schumer.
I think they need laws and they need to make them harsh but I will might be willing to part with last month’s cell phone records to any idiot willing to give me $100.
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