Finally, Brokers Get Sued for Selling Private Phone Records

		<a href='http://ads.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=28669285' target='_blank'><img src='http://ads.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=28669285&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	February 19, 2012 Log in / Register
			Text Size

Past Events Upcoming Events

Ideological Hypocrites

OWS Calls for May Day Strike

Krugman to Playboy: Economic Crisis 'Doesn't Have to Be Happening'

When Iran Talks Back

The .0000063% Election

Ideological Hypocrites
By E.J. Dionne, Jr.

The Lowdown on Fracking
By Lena Groeger, ProPublica

The Best, Most Revealing Reporting on the Foreclosure Crisis
By Blair Hickman, ProPublica

The .0000063% Election
By Ari Berman, TomDispatch

OWS Calls for May Day Strike

When Iran Talks Back

Krugman to Playboy: Economic Crisis ‘Doesn’t Have to Be Happening’

Iran Could Cause Mideast Cold War, U.K. Official Warns

Syrian Troops Kill Mourner at Damascus Funeral

Gov. Christie Nixes New Jersey Gay Marriage Bill

‘Left, Right & Center’: Cars, Contraception and China

Occupy Fashion Week

Putin on Trial ... Almost

‘Colbert Report’: Contraception Crusade

Déjà Pooh
By Mr. Fish

This Gay Man Represented the President
By Mel White

Whither ‘Colbert Report’?

Herman Cain Will Not Dance With the Stars

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East

By Juan Cole
$17.12

Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays

By Karen Malpede (Editor); Michael Messina (Editor); Bob Shuman (Editor); Chris Hedges (Foreword)

Ash Grey T-Shirt

$19

Finally, Brokers Get Sued for Selling Private Phone Records

Posted on Jan 23, 2006

Chicago Sun-Times: Illinois has become the first state to sue an information broker for obtaining cell phone records and selling them on the Internet, according to a spokeswoman for Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

The lawsuit accuses Florida-based 1st Source Information Specialists Inc. and its directors, Kenneth W. Gorman and Steven Schwartz, of using fraud to persuade telephone companies to release phone calling lists, said Melissa Merz, a spokeswoman for Madigan. | story

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: broker cell phones fraud illinois information internet private records sue telephone

Related Entries

February 17, 2012 Google Caught Tracking Apple Users
February 9, 2012 Banks, Gov’t Strike $25B Deal in Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
January 25, 2012 Lessons of JoePa, in Case the Next Witch We Hunt Doesn�t Drop Dead
January 20, 2012 SOPA and PIPA Put on Hold
January 20, 2012 SOPA

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Halliburton Cited in Iraq Contamination

Next item: NBC Cancels 'The West Wing'

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By Afrothetics, January 23, 2006 at 7:46 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)

Finally, is right! Vermin like this company have been mining public data since deregulation was authored under Ronald Reagan. When you think deregulation, just think privacy invasion and daylight bank robberies. Congratulations to the citizens and authorities in Illinois! You are protecting the public interest. Now do the same with public utilities.

Report this

Add Your Comment

Web site development by Hop Studios