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...valuable service to creditors, attorneys and private investigators "to catch bad people" - among them stalkers, fugitives from the law and deadbeat dads. Although data acquired through pretexting is not admissible in court, such information can be useful as an investigative shortcut, without having to wait for a warrant or subpoena. "Fifty years from now you?re going to need a subpoena to talk to your neighbor," says one frustrated data broker, Noah Weider, president of IEI, which runs BestPeopleSearch.com...
...procedures [police] should use instead of sidestepping them for convenience sake,? says Siy from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, phone records are customers? private property and phone companies can disclose them only with the consent of the subscriber or with a subpoena from law enforcement. The act applies only to telecom companies, however, saying nothing about third parties selling records. "I can give a pass to the average American being confused as to the legality of [buying phone records]," says Douglas. "But Law Enforcement 101 is the need to get a subpoena or warrant...
...wake of reports that the NSA is monitoring phone records, Senator Arlen Specter, the Judiciary Committee chairman, said he would subpoena phone companies to appear before his committee. The phone companies said they would try to be there sometime between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m." TINA...
...nation's three largest phone companies--and has produced what is reported to be the largest such database ever. But while lawmakers vowed closer oversight--with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter announcing that he would summon the heads of the three phone companies to testify, under subpoena if necessary--few politicians went so far as to say that Bush should not have done...
...records. The three companies that turned over their customers' records--AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon, which combined carry roughly 80% of the nation's landline calls and half the wireless ones--all issued terse statements saying they valued their customers' privacy and did nothing illegal. "We get requests and subpoenas for records from cheating husbands and wives to sheriffs to the FBI down in Miami wanting a wiretap," Jeff Battcher, BellSouth's vice president of corporate communications, told TIME. "We know how to do this, and we would never give out any confidential customer information without having a subpoena...