Your Cell Phone Records For Sale
 

Hey all of our cell phone records are for sale! Amazing. Interesting read:

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2005/11/its..._ob.html#posts

How can that be legal? Complete invasion of privacy, no?

Well now that I've read the article, I'm glad some people are doing things.. though cell phone companies definitely need to not just give out information like they're doing still it sounds like..

Matt

they better crack down on this. can't believe nothing has been done yet

that is bullsh

Wow... none of our secrets are safe!

lol, toll and other cell records have been for sale for years. There are several outfits in the South, usually Florida, that can get them for around $40-$50 bucks depending on if the number is listed or not.

nothing new, must be a hell genius system they are using to track those records

:smokin

that's fucked. oh well.

ouch. maybe I should rethink the whole throwaway-phone (prepaid) idea.

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I wouldn't consider it 'legal'

This has been going on for a long time, and as most cell/utility company web sites have integrated everything into an online environment for billing purposes etc it has become easier to do and quicker. It has been going on for a long time but more and more sites are popping up offering call details.

The unfortunate thing is that no cell or utility company is immune to social engineering attempts, so it can't really be stopped. Granted these sites offering these services can be shut down but that doesn't mean you are safe or this can't happen to you or hasn't, people still have the knowledge to do it.

I know a lot of companies telco related that could definately beef up authentication especially via phone and train employees better. Unfortunately, there is always one stupid rep out there that will not follow proper procedures.

:2 cents:

even several prepaid providers offer a call detail now via the web :( :(

New world order sucks

Governments and corporations routinely abuse such information. I would have never assumed it was private. If you want your privacy assured, make special arrangements. Only the paranoid survive.

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