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All Your Phone Call Records are for Sale, Cheap

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Posted on Jan 9, 2006

Sun Times: The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone—for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts.

Criminals can use such records to expose a government informant who regularly calls a law enforcement official. | more

Also: AmericaBlog reports that Democrats.com is offering to help buy Republicans’ private phone call records.

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