US Judge Bars Unauthorized Sales of Phone Records

The Register delivers the good news that a US federal judge had slapped down the practice of pretexting and ordered a Wyoming company to pay almost $200,000; AccuSearch was also permanently barred from selling individuals' phone records without their permission. The FTC had filed suit in 2006 against the company and four others. AccuSearch had advertised a service that made phone records of any individual available for a fee. The current article makes no mention of whatever became of the other four accused data brokers.

Other data brokers?

[hawks5999]

The current article makes no mention of whatever became of the other four accused data brokers

They all now go by their original names:

NSA

CIA

FBI

DHS

Re:What? This is unheard of!

[Dr. Hellno]

If I may, I'll take off my top hat and replace it with my tinfoil cap for a second:

It seems probable to me that the reason this happened is phone records which show calls

from politicians to call girls

from lobbyists to politicians

and of course

conference calls between the three.