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Article: PHONE RECORDS LEGISLATION ADVANCES QUICKLY IN HOUSE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash. (1st CD), issued the following press release:
A key House panel held a hearing on the threat posed to American consumers by online companies that sell phone records without the consent of account holders. Among measures discussed aimed at protecting such information included a bill penned by committee members Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).
Their bill - the first offered in the House - would criminalize the practice of impersonating an account holder to obtain phone records, known as pretexting. It also calls for consumers to be notified if their phone records are breached.
During the hearing, Inslee announced King County Sheriff Sue Rahr ...