[AT&T sues] data brokers from Unauthorized Access to Customer Data

[BadgerKid]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=T:US&sid=azLW8.DFYAk4

AT&T Services Inc. Files Suit to Bar Data Brokers From Unauthorized Access to Customer Data

SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Services Inc. filed suit in federal court today to block some two dozen so-called data brokers from accessing customer information without authorization from the company or the customer.
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"We're taking this action on behalf of our customers," said Priscilla Hill-Ardoin, chief privacy officer for AT&T.
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No Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers or similarly sensitive financial, credit or identity information was accessible.

The lawsuit is designed to provide the company with the legal process to use e-mail addresses and Internet Protocol addresses to identify the perpetrators, and pursue an injunction to bar such activity, as well as seek damages.

[BadgerKid]

1. Here we go...

:popcorn:

[w4rma]

2. But its fine with them if the Republican leadership has access to the

same information. Perhaps these data brokers should just ask Bush for the info.

[seafan]

3. "..unauthorized access..collect info for use in legal/domestic disputes.."

In some cases, individuals or data brokers use unauthorized access to telephone records, often to collect information for use in legal or domestic disputes.

Wonderful. Just wonderful.



All those nice detention centers Halliburton is building across America will soon come in handy.

[Sherman A1]

4. Wonder just where Priscilla was when the NSA came knocking?

Perhaps out to lunch???