Anyone can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing phone calls

[TheGunslinger]

Anyone can buy a list of your incoming and outgoing phone calls, cell or land-line, for $110 online
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/anyone-can-buy-list-of-your-incoming.html

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.

:wow:

[NMDemDist2]

1. no wonder the government is running such a deficit

at $110 a pop per month watching all those "terrorist" get spendy......

:evilgrin:

[wakeme2008]

2. About a month ago Cingular

must have released my cell number because I started receiving sells calls from ppl that knew my name.... :grr:

[BadgerKid]

3. See slashdot thread

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/06/1533209

[Daphne08]

4. Write to your Senators and Representatives!

This is an outrage!

[freeplessinseattle]

5. OMFG!! and hey can I have Cheney's records?

what the hell is up with that? my first thought was the safety of domestic violence survivors, second thought was hmmm, can I get the AF1 phone records?