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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCarriers cry overkill on pretexting.
RCR Wireless News, April, 2007
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 records.
The Federal Communications Commission's decision directs wireless and wireline carriers to take additional steps to prevent unauthorized disclosure of subscribers' phone records in the name of consumer privacy, but one provision allows delays in notifying customers of some privacy breaches involving customer proprietary network information, or CPNI. The agency's two Democratic members dissented to the latter rule change.
The new guidelines, which...
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