Comments on: New bill in Congress targets phone record fraud

Congressional panel approves more penalties targeting sales of personal phone records without customer consent.

[marc_90292]

OF COURSE THEY DO

Of course Congress wants to shut these people down! Imagine you are a party to a lawsuit, your opponent pays $850,000 to an elected official quid pro quo for ex parte contacts to the judge in your case. The Senator calls the judge and tells him to throw your suit out. You trace the call, you find the bribe on the FEC site. Think I am kidding? Think again. I have evidence in three cases where that happened. One case is US v. Oracle (the Peoplesoft acquisition), in another case the guys were so stupid to do that over 8 years, paying between $100,000 and $300,000 in installments every time four days after an adverse litigation event.

[TomMariner]

Any Lawyer

Any lawyer for any purpose can get a subpoena for anything other than a national secret so this privacy thing is ridiculous anyway.

[jesdog]

NOT TRUE

Even a lawyer has to make formal disclosures, specify what he's going to subpoena, and state facts supported by evidence to obtain such a subpoena. But don't worry, this is just congressional posturing-don't look for any law of any significance in the subject originator of the Congress in the near future.

[jesdog]

NOT TRUE

Even a lawyer has to make formal disclosures, specify what he's going to subpoena, and state facts supported by evidence to obtain such a subpoena. But don't worry, this is just congressional posturing-don't look for any law of any significance in the subject originating out of this Congress in the near future.