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Web Sites Sell Private Phone Records

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Tuesday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to require that telecommunications carriers establish better policies and procedures to prevent customer billing records from being sold illegally. EPIC identified more than 40 Web sites engaged in the practice of selling telephone records.

Private Phone Records Sold Online, Privacy Group Complains, InformationWeek, August 30, 2005.