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Article: REP. SCHAKOWSKY'S SAFE CALL BILL INCLUDED IN BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO PROTECT CONSUMERS' PHONE RECORDS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 8, 2006
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. (9th CD), issued the following press release:
The SAFE CALL bill, sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ranking member on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, was today included in bipartisan legislation passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee which would protect the private phone records of consumers. Schakowsky's SAFE CALL bill would make it illegal to pretext, or to pose as others in order to obtain their phone records.
The bipartisan legislation which today passed the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act, would address the concerns raised by the Chicago Police Department ...