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.

Re:Paint me stupid.

[corsec67]

In the current government, who cares about a "warrant"? Not like that means anything anymore. Especially to a phone company.

Not such a big deal

[Anonymous Coward]

The 3 letter agencies don't have to buy their phone records

Re:Other data brokers?

[gbobeck]

I thought their real names were the following:

AT&T
AARP
ACM (thats Association For Computing Machinery)
Publisher's Clearinghouse

Paint me stupid too

[erareno]

This is how spammers get your number, I'm guessing? If so, does this mean no more phone spam? *Awaits the inevitable denial of such high hopes*

Wait...

[Shifty Jim]

This was legal to begin with? Umm... Yeah.