Just picked this story up - it's been happening in the states too.... :)
You'll need to cut and paste the web link into your browser.
Andrea
39. February 08, Associated Press — Websites hawking phone records shut down. Following a wave of negative publicity and pressure from the government, several Websites that peddled people's private phone records are calling it quits. "We are no longer accepting new orders" was the announcement posted Wednesday, February 8, on two such sites, locatecell.com and celltolls.com. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week conducted a sweep of 40 sites known to have been selling private phone records. According to the FTC's Lydia Parnes, more than 20 sites have recently shut down or stopped advertising for new business. The agency has sent letters to about 20 other sites, warning them that they may be violating the law and should review their business practices, said Parnes, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. While some sites appear to be closing up shop, others have seen a boom in business with the recent media attention, said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Rotenberg urged lawmakers to ban a practice known as
"pretexting," in which data brokers or others call a phone company, impersonate a customer and then persuade the company to release the calling records.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP−Phone−Records.
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Well, 5pm came. And went. 5:45 I had a call "Hello Mr Trent. I only just
got this email".
I explained that I was in process of printing off the complaint forms.
It will be escalated to a manager on Monday.
I have also spoken to a man in Bombay who insisted that I wanted to talk
about a different service.
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