For $110 ANYONE can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing phone calls

[kpete]

Anyone can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing phone calls, cell or land-line, for $110 online
by John in DC - 1/07/2006 03:21:00 PM


And the best part? Congress and the Executive branch have known about this problem for half a year or more and no one did a damn thing to fix it.

In a nutshell, the Chicago Sun-Times ran a story two days ago about a Web site that sells phone records, for cells and land-lines, for $110 a pop. The company boasts on its own Web site:
Give us the cell phone number and we will send you the calls made from the cell phone number.
So I went to their site, plopped down $110, and within a day I had a list of every single phone number that called my cell, or that I called from my cell, for the month of November. I even had the dates the calls were made, and for a premium I could find out how long the calls were.

I called Cingular and they were shocked by what I told them - yeah right.

And the best part? The article from the Sun-Times makes clear that the FBI is aware of this problem, the Chicago Police Department, one of the top two electronic privacy groups in the nation (EPIC), and even the office of Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). EPIC apparently has known about this problem for a long time, and Schumer didn't seem very surprised either.

more at:http://www.americablog.org/

[RagingInMiami]

1. Cheating husbands and wives beware

[TomInTib]

2. And Carlyle is buying Directory Assistance companies

in the U S and Central America.

Wonder if this is connected?

[leveymg]

3. No warrant needed when the data is available as open source info.

That's why they won't do anything - it would put a crimp on the domestic data mining operations being conducted by a dozen agencies and hundreds of DHS contractors.

[Steve A Play]

4. "I called Cingular and they were shocked by what I told them"

I'm sure they were. I'll bet they never dreamed that they could sell your information for that much!

I'll bet they're talking to the marketing department right now asking how they missed an opportunity like that. :scared:

Steven P.

[RagingInMiami]

5. You know what the whole irony of this is?

Is that while government is continually becoming more secretive and clandestine, the lives of U.S. citizens are continually becoming more exposed and scrutinized.

Is this is freedom, get me the hell out of here.