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- FCC Imposes Pretexting Rules
- On the heels of the US. Congress enacting legislation to make pretexting - impersonating an individual to gain access to their personal information without their consent - illegal, the Federal Communications Commission FCC has enacted its own rules to further protect consumers. The FCC issued an order requiring telephone and...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Protecting phone records: Congress considers a bill, while the FCC tightens regulatory requirements on telecoms to better safeguard personal data.(Technofile)(Federal Communications Commission)
- PRIVATE PHONE RECORDS often end up in the hands of data brokers, and phone companies face few consequences for not protecting the information. Some members of Congress want to raise the bar by passing the Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act (H.R. 936). But ...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Carriers cry overkill on pretexting.
- Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The wireless industry was tagged with new privacy rules it decried as overkill and potentially costly to consumers, while Sprint Nextel Corp. downplayed suggestions its joint venture with four cable operators could suffer because of restrictions on sharing phone...
- Research articles 2007-04-09
- Congress Passes Pretexting Law
- Pretexting - the act of impersonating an individual to obtain their telephone and other personal records without their consent - is now a federal crime in the United States. In late 2006, Congress enacted legislation - the Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006 - criminalizing pretexting and imposing...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Many Companies Lack Formal Guidelines Against Pretexting in Internal Investigations, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services Online Poll Shows
- To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Lewis Goldberg, +1-212-896-1216, lgoldberg@kcsa.com, or Shelley Pfaendler +1-212-896-1248, spfaendler@kcsa.com, both of KCSA Worldwide; or Anthony Riggio, Deloitte Services LP, +1-973-683-6025, ariggio@deloitte.com NEW YORK, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite recent legal actions against companies that engage in pretexting and other illegal techniques to investigate fraud, misconduct, or simply...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- 2007 Vs. 2006: Prepare For More Net Enforcement
- When it comes to questionable, nefarious and illicit activity on the Internet, the World Wide Web and the public switched telephone network PSTN, events during the course of 2006 suggest that 2007 may well become the "year of enforcement." From mere telemarketing annoyances to pretexting fraud...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Congress Quits As R&D Tax Credit, Anti-Pretexting Bills Pass
- The 109th session of the U.S. Congress adjourned during the early hours of Dec. 9 without progress on any sweeping telecom reform or national video- franchising legislation. Nevertheless, it passed important bills dealing with the research-and-development tax credit, anti-pretexting, spyware and public- safety interoperability. With the House...
- Research articles 2006-12-11
- Leaky, sneaky and cheeky: there's no management innovation too bad or too bald for some companies.(BRANDTON LEADERSHIP)
- One Of The Wonderful Things About studying leadership and management is that just when you think you've seen or heard it all, somebody invents something so new and wonderful and innovative that you have to shake your head and say, "What'll they think of next?" Here...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- FTC Settlement Bars One Call Broker's Sales, Pretexting
- As the Hewlett-Packard pretexting fraud scandal intensifies with criminal charges and arrest warrants (TelecomWeb news break, Oct. 5), the Federal Trade Commission FTC revealed it has settled charges against a call-detail broker that will be barred from selling such information and from the pretexting technique used...
- Research articles 2006-10-09
- Missing Anti-Pretexting Bill Still A Mystery To U.S. Legislators
- Amid inquiries into Hewlett-Packard's boardroom leak-probe scandal and ongoing investigations into call-data brokers, members of a House of Representatives committee appear to remain completely puzzled about the disappearance of a proposed bill that would make virtually all pretexting fraud illegal and that would impose criminal penalties....
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- Congress challenges HP heads' practices
- WASHINGTON -- Hewlett- Packard's top current and former managers faced incredulous members of a congressional investigative committee Thursday who compared their boardroom leak investigation to everything from the Watergate plumbers to the Keystone Kops. The executives were on hand to explain to the House Energy and Commerce...
- Research articles 2006-09-29
- FCC Queries AT&T About HP Call-Data Scandal
- It didn't take long for the Federal Communications Commission FCC to jump into the mushrooming privacy scandal over Hewlett-Packard HP last week, admitting it had hired detectives to investigate board members and journalists secretly and to obtain their phone-call records in order to find sources of ...
- Research articles 2006-09-11
- Hewlett-Packard roiled by corporate spying scandal
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn is clinging to her job as she was battered with accusations that she ordered a probe in which board members and reporters were illegally spied on. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer vowed to prosecute wrongdoers at the end of his investigation into...
- Research articles 2006-09-08
- FTC pushes for civil penalties against pretexters.(News)
- Byline: JEFFREY SILVA The Federal Trade Commission asked lawmakers for authority to assess civil penalties against individuals and firms that obtain consumer phone records under false pretenses, a practice known as pretexting that policymaker Byline: JEFFREY SILVA ...
- Research articles 2007-04-16
- Information brokers. (Regulatory Issues).(Internet research companies fined)(Brief Article)
- The Federal Trade Commission FTC has announced that three Internet research companies have agreed to settle charges that they obtained private information about individuals under false pretenses--also known as pretexting. The companies advertised that they could obtain personal information such as bank account numbers, safe ...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Information brokers settle FTC charges; "Pretexting" to obtain consumers' private financial data barred.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 June 2000-US FTC: Information brokers settle FTC charges; "Pretexting" to obtain consumers' private financial data barred C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27062000 Information brokers who used deceptive methods to obtain private financial data about consumers and then sold...
- Research articles 2000-06-28
- FBI wants first notice when phone records stolen.(Upfront)
- Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Privacy groups oppose Bush administration efforts to require wireless carriers and others to delay notifying customers when phone records and other personal data are stolen through subscriber impersonation and other frau Byline: JEFFREY SILVA ...
- Research articles 2007-02-05
- US FTC: Consumers' private financial information obtained and sold illegally; FTC alleges.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-23 April 1999-US FTC: Consumers' private financial information obtained and sold illegally; FTC alleges C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:220499 * Agency Seeks Injunction in First Federal Case Against "Information Broker" for "Pretexting" The Federal Trade Commission today...
- Research articles 1999-04-23
- -U.S. FTC: FTC supports legislation to protect consumer credit privacy
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 July 1998-U.S. FTC: FTC supports legislation to protect consumer credit privacy C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:280798 -- Agency says civil and criminal sanctions could deter fraudulent information brokers The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services...
- Research articles 1998-07-29
- First Conviction in Hewlett Packard Pretexting Investigation
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- Research articles 2007-01-12
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