phone records for sale.

[Adler, Joseph]

I got curious about this issue, and did a little digging into what's
going on here. It turns out that the FCC is looking into this problem at
EPIC's request.

EPIC filed a petition for rulemaking on this subject with the FCC -
which went out for public comment at the end of the year. The petition
itself contains copious material about the practices and methods - which
you can download. Use the FCC ECFS template:
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/comsrch_v2.cgi
and enter "RM-11277" without the quotes, and click on Retrieve Document
List. I found both the original petition and the replies from service
providers fascinating.

-- Joseph Adler

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com
[mailto:owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com] On Behalf Of Perry E. Metzger
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:34 AM
To: cryptography at metzdowd.com
Subject: phone records for sale.


The Chicago Sun Times reports that, for the right price, you can buy
just about anyone's cell phone records:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-privacy05.html

Quite disturbing.

Perry

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