T-Mobile seeks to halt sales of call records

Wireless carrier asks a court to stop companies from allegedly using fraud to obtain and sell records of customers' cell phone use.

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DATA FIND SOLUTIONS, INC. IS NOT IN THE CELL PHONE RECORDS BUSINESS

DATA FIND SOLUTIONS, INC. IS NOT IN THE CELL PHONE RECORDS BUSINESS

Recent media attention pertaining to cell phone records has created some confusion as to the current status of Data Find Solutions, Inc. in that industry. Since September, 2005, Data Find Solutions, Inc. has not owned or operated any web sites. Data Find Solutions, Inc. is not in the cell phone records business, or any other business, on the internet or otherwise. Data Find Solutions, Inc. does not own or operate locatecell.com; peoplesearchamerica.com; datafind.org; or celltolls.com.

Furthermore, James Kester, does not own or operate any business pertaining to cell phone records or data brokering, on the internet or otherwise.

Kindly direct all further inquiries to Data Find Solutions, Inc.?s attorney Brian C. Quist: 2121 First Tennessee Plaza, Knoxville, TN 37929; [phone].

[TV James]

Why not fix the problem?

Maybe it's not within the scope of the article, but what is T-Mobile doing on its own end to make it more difficult for these companies to obtain the information in the first place? It seems like the announcement of a lawsuit would be a great time to also announce upgrades/policy changes that make it more difficult for someone to illegally acquire said records.

Bob Sullivan recommends implementing out-of-band (notifying customers) and out-of-character (monitoring employee access to records) as two additional ways that companies can rather inexpensively and quickly make our information more secure, and until they do that "they should be suing themselves."

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/01/there_is_finall.html

[heystoopid]

Time for a class action law suit , and more!

It's time for legal action, due to the deliberate breach of various state and federal privacy and computer acts!

Answer, to the problem, bankrupt the phone company that sells or supplies your personal and private data to third parties.

Remember, whilst we the customer, can do without these idiot providers, ultimately they cannot function, without a customer, so the answer is within us!, by the simple use of boycott and class action law suits, and kick the backside, of any state attorney general who fails to enforce state privacy and computer laws!, for that is what he/she is paid for!(use the karl rove tactic, claim too soft on corporate criminals citing SONY BMG cyber terrorism as an example et al, and failing to enforce all laws as required!)