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RCR Wireless News, January, 2006
Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Both the House and Senate said they plan to hold hearings on the ever-burgeoning privacy scandal regarding the disclosure and sale of customers' telecommunications records. The House Commerce Committee is expected to start the process with a hearing Wednesday afternoon.
The Senate Commerce consumer-affairs subcommittee is scheduled to follow a week later. Witnesses for the hearings have yet to be announced but Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras said a representative of the FTC was expected to testify. The cell-phone records scandal has been escalating since the CBS Evening News broadcast a Jan. 12 report critical of the wireless industry and the apparent theft and sale of customer-call...
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