Comments on: Your Cell Phone Records For Sale http://gigaom.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve George http://gigaom.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112931 Mon, 22 May 2006 17:08:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112931 whats the new motorola music phone called?

Steve

]]> By: Michigan Telephone, VoIP and Broadband blog http://gigaom.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112930 Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:35:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112930 Your cell phone records, available to anyone, for a price

A troubling revelation for those concerned about personal privacy, by way of Om Malik’s blog. Om writes: If you watch Law & Order or The Wire as much as I do, you know that your cell phone records, your locations etc is all stored in a giant database …

]]> By: Solomon Folks http://gigaom.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112929 Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:19:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112929 Now I realize why Warren Buffett does not use a cell phone nor does he invest in technology companies despite being good friends with Bill Gates.

]]> By: Jesse Newland http://gigaom.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112928 Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:32:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112928 Verizon’s privacy policy has this wide open exception:

We may use and share information about you: (a) so we can provide our goods or services; (b) so others can provide goods or services to us, or to you on our behalf; (c) so we or our affiliates can communicate with you about goods or services related to the ones you already receive (although you can call us any time if you don’t want us to do this); (d) to protect ourselves; or (e) as required by law, legal process, or exigent circumstances.

A and B say to me that Verizon can do whatever they want with my data as long as they, um, need to do it to conduct their business. Seems as if they are probably having someone else process call logs to do their billing, and will say they aren’t responsible for what that company is doing with those records.

]]> By: l0ne http://gigaom.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112927 Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:10:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112927 PS: ‘you’ as in ‘the user who gave the data to the phone company’.

]]> By: l0ne http://gigaom.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112926 Sun, 08 Jan 2006 19:10:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/your-cell-phone-records-for-sale/#comment-112926 One of the few perks of living in a backwards nation like Italy is that doing as locatecell does is against the law unless you give them your written consenus. Yay. (The same law also makes unsolicited junk mail an offence, by the way.)

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