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by Paul Kerstein

Privacy Group Says Web Site Gets Records Illegally

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Jul 08, 20051 min
CSO and CISOData and Information Security

The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed acomplaint with the Federal Trade Commission about the information-collectionpractices of Intelligent e-Commerce Inc., whose BestPeopleSearch.com web siteadvertises the sale of phone-call records and the identities of holders ofpost-office boxes, among other things. The Wall Street Journal reports that theadvocacy group complains that this information is protected by regulation orstatute and sites like these are in violation of federal law. Read more.