January 17, 2006
Consumers vulnerable to phone data theft
The political site AMERICAblog announced that for only $89.95 it had purchased the cell-phone records of 100 calls over three days in November 2005 made or received by former presidential candidate General Wesley Clark. PhysOrg.com reports.
Blog publisher John Aravosis wrote he had bought Clark's phone records from the Web site Celltolls.com and his own from Locatecell.com for $110 to address failed privacy protections.
The blog's actions came after the Chicago Sun-Times published a Jan. 5 article by reporter Frank Main in which the paper conducted a similar investigation. The story followed after the FBI informed law enforcement nationwide including the Chicago Police Department, warning officers' phone records may be purchased online, according to Main's article."
Related:
-- Blogger buys presidential candidate's call list
-- Agencies probing sales of cellphone data
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