Phone Record Privacy

The New York Times:

The protection of phone records falls into a legal gray area, privacy experts say. Legislators, regulators and the phone industry are all considering ways to clamp down on unauthorized releases of records...

Legislation that is pending in the Senate and House would criminalize what is known as pretexting — seeking to obtain a customer’s phone records under false pretext, typically by pretending to be the customer. Separately, the Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules that would force phone companies to guard customer records more carefully.

The California Attorney General is investigating...