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FCC Sets Rules on Pretexting

You'll have to provide a password if you want to get your account information from your telephone company under new privacy rules approved Monday by the Federal Communications Commission. The rules were created to safeguard against pretexting, the practice of impersonating a phone customer to gain access to his phone records.

FCC weighs in on pretexting, Associated Press, April 2, 2007.