This just in from NCISS
Bruce Hulme, NCISS Legislative Director
and is being forwarded as an NAIS legal alert.
FTC files charges against cellphone record sellers
The federal trade Commission has filed criminal charges against five Web-based
companies that allegedly sold private cellphone records over the Internet.
On May 3 criminal charges were filed, following a months-long investigation by the FTC
which had monitored more than two dozen companies that advertised on the Internet that
they could obtain and sell confidential phone records.
The FTC is seeking a permanent halt to the sale of the phone records, and has asked the
courts to order the operators to surrender the money made from the sales. The
defendants include 77 Investigations Inc., based in Upland, California, AccuSearch Inc.,
doing business as Abika.com, based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and CEO Group Inc., d/b/a
Check Em Out, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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