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Illinois Poised to Become First State to Ban Sale of Phone Records
Posted on Jan 9, 2006 by Tom Fragala
January 9, 2006 - On Friday, Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich announced that he wants to ban the unauthorized sale of phone records within his state. The practice, know in the industry as "pretexting", occurs when someone pretending to be the phone company’s customer calls the phone company and gains access to all of the call information available for the actual customer. Surprisingly, no state currently outlaws this practice. And disturbingly, this lack of regulation has seen the birth of a new cottage industry that allows nearly anyone the purchase the phone records of any person they desire.
Link: GuardMyCreditFile: Illinois Poised to Become First State to Ban Sale of Phone Records.
Filed under: Identity Theft
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