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InternetNews March 8, 2006 Roy Mark	Second Phone Data Privacy Bill Approved Targeting both telephone data brokers and telecoms, a House panel today approved legislation that bans the sale, lease or rental of confidential telephone records.
InternetNews February 9, 2006 Roy Mark	IM, E-Mail Identities Hot on The Net Online data brokers are selling far more than personal telephone records, including the actual names, addresses and phone numbers of instant messaging users and those registered with dating sites, such as Match.com.
InternetNews December 11, 2006 Roy Mark	Pretexting For Phone Records on The Block As one of its final acts in the wee hours of Saturday morning, the U.S. Congress approved legislation criminalizing the practice of pretexting for confidential telephone information.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Nearing Pretexting Vote With an Oct. 6 adjournment date looming, U.S. Senate leaders are hammering out backroom compromise legislation to finalize a bill criminalizing making false or fraudulent statements to obtain phone records.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Rekindles Hope for Pretexting Bill House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman claims anti-pretexting legislation has a good chance to hit floor before Saturday adjournment.
InternetNews April 3, 2007 Roy Mark	Phone Carriers Could Have Your Back The FCC approves rules that, among other things, require telephone carriers to obtain customers' consent to share data.
InternetNews February 6, 2006 Roy Mark	House Has Eyes on Black Market Data Sites The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Committee demands to know source of phone records for sale on Internet.
InternetNews March 31, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Passes Phone Data Confidentiality Bill A U.S. Senate panel pushed out legislation yesterday that makes it illegal to acquire, use or sell a person's confidential phone records without affirmative written consent.
InternetNews April 7, 2006 Roy Mark	House Subpoenas Phone Data Sites Web sites selling confidential consumer telephone data are refusing to comply with a U.S. House of Representatives' request for information, prompting the Energy and Commerce Committee to issue subpoenas to a dozen companies.
InternetNews January 19, 2006 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Move Against Phone Record Brokers New legislation targets the illegal selling of personal telephone record data.
InternetNews March 2, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Rocks Phone Record Thieves The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation today aimed at curbing the sale of online black market telephone records.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	FCC Pushing Carriers to Guard Your Data FCC chairman to push telephone carriers to better protect consumer personal data.
InternetNews May 3, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Sues Sites Selling Phone Records Five Internet sites selling confidential phone records became the target of Federal Trade Commission lawsuits Wednesday.
InternetNews September 8, 2006 Roy Mark	The Murky World of Pretexting HP's actions may be legally questionable, but they sure were easy.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	Pretexting Ban a Federal Done Deal Bush signs new law targeting those who seek confidential phone records and those who sell them.
InternetNews May 12, 2005 Roy Mark	New Bill Targets Spyware Profits U.S. Senator George Allen says the federal government already has authority to prosecute spyware purveyors.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Bill Would Protect Call Records From Snoopers New legislation would have FTC write rules for stricter security standards for consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark	House Delivers Package of Privacy Bills Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a package of bills Thursday evening aimed at identity theft, pretexting, data security and breach notifications.
InternetNews November 25, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Verizon Staff Fired After Peek at Obama's Calls The Verizon Wireless employees who accessed President-elect Barack Obama's records without authorization have been fired, according to news reports.
InternetNews August 24, 2006 Roy Mark	AT&T After 'John Doe' Data Brokers New legal tactics aim to curb data brokers gaining unauthorized access to confidential phone records.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Bills Target ID Theft Ease U.S. Senators have a simple solution to put a stop to identity theft: ban phone companies from selling personal information, bar Internet sites from selling the records and prohibit the sale or display of Social Security numbers without an individual's consent.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Say: Ban All Sales of Phone Records The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission suggest that new laws targeting online phone data brokers should also include carriers.
Information Today April 21, 2011 George H. Pike	House and Senate Propose Online Privacy 'Bill of Rights' Legislation The face of online privacy could change dramatically if legislation recently introduced in Congress becomes law.
InternetNews January 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Capitol Hill Roiling Over Online Phone Records The furor over online data brokers selling personal telephone data continues to roil on Capitol Hill with a House panel now demanding to know when the Federal Communications Commission will complete its investigation.
InternetNews June 30, 2005 Roy Mark	Bill Targets Trafficking in Social Security Numbers Legislation requires companies to alert customers if their credit card information has been breached. The bill also prohibits requiring individuals to use Social Security numbers as their account numbers.
InternetNews September 22, 2004 Roy Mark	Senate Panel Approves Anti-Spyware Bill Anti-spyware legislation took a major step forward Wednesday when the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill to outlaw spyware that is loaded on a computer without the user's consent.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark	EPIC Petition Catches FCC's Attention The Federal Communications Commission expects to open a proceeding next Friday on imposing stricter security standards for telephone carriers' handling of consumers' personal data.
InternetNews July 14, 2006 Roy Mark	FCC Fines Phone Data Broker The Federal Communications Commission hit online telephone records broker LocateCell with its maximum fine of $97,500 for failing to respond to a subpoena request.
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Roy Mark	Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Additional legislation calls for criminal penalties for concealing breaches and consumer notification of 'significant' breaches.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews March 8, 2007 Roy Mark	Gates' Washington Trip a Privacy Affair Congress should pass 'milestone' national uniform privacy standard says Microsoft chairman.
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Debating Data Privacy Changes Senate Commerce Committee opens series of hearing on data broker practices.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Roy Mark	Congress Wants HP Front And Center HP is guaranteed another embarrassing day in the sun over its pretexting scandal, this time with the cameras rolling and a national audience.
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Roy Mark	Opt-In Wireless Directory Advances in Senate Close vote requires wireless carriers to obtain consent before listing consumers' cell phone numbers in public directory.
InternetNews December 16, 2010	Ecommerce Scam Bill Heads to President's Desk House clears Senate-approved legislation cracking down on "post-transaction" marketers found to have quietly enrolled unsuspecting shoppers in fee-based membership programs.
InternetNews June 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Showing Little Interest in Net Neutrality The network neutrality debate resumed today in the U.S. Senate the way it ended in the House of Representatives Thursday night: apparently dead on arrival.
InternetNews November 18, 2005 Roy Mark	A Senate Shot at Anti-Spyware Anti-spyware legislation found new life in the U.S. Senate Thursday when the Commerce Committee approved the SPY BLOCK Act, which outlaws a number of activities associated with unauthorized downloads.
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Takes up Data Security Law FTC commissioners set to testify before panel that will enforce any new data privacy laws.
InternetNews May 2, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Bill Dumps Net Neutrality Wide ranging legislation relegates network neutrality to further FCC study.
InternetNews January 31, 2006 Roy Mark	FCC: Fines For AT&T, Alltel The Federal Communications Commission Monday proposed fining AT&T and Alltel $100,000 each for failing to file paperwork certifying the security of their customers' telephone data.
InternetNews October 6, 2004 Roy Mark	House Passes Anti-Spyware Bill The U.S. House of Representatives voted 399-1 Tuesday night to pass legislation prohibiting unfair or deceptive practices related to spyware.
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Congress Reacts to Breach Onslaught BJ's Wholesale Club settles lax data protection charges while FDIC admits to data breach.
InternetNews January 23, 2006 Roy Mark	Online Phone Data Brokers Stonewall FCC The Federal Communications Commission orders brokers to provide information about source of phone data they are selling over Internet.
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Roy Mark	Mandatory VoIP 911 Bills Introduced Lawmakers want to trump the Federal Communications Commission's call for mandatory 911 Voice over IP service with legislation of their own.
InternetNews January 5, 2007 Roy Mark	Stevens Seeks USF Expansion to Broadband Alaskan senator seeks new funds to subsidize telecom services to rural and high-cost areas.
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Roy Mark	Panel Predicts Few VoIP Regulations Congressional and FCC lawyers underscore the call by elected officials for light regulatory approach to emerging Internet telephone business.
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Calif. Gov. Signs Anti-Spyware Bill The bill privacy groups called 'unenforceable' is now state law.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Launch New Anti-Spyware Bill Two champions of last year's Can Spam Act have introduced legislation in Congress to outlaw invasive software such as spyware and adware from being secretly installed on computers.
InternetNews September 21, 2006 Roy Mark	Telecom Reform Hopes Fading Telecom reform is dead in the U.S. Senate - until at least a November lame duck session, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said.
InternetNews August 30, 2005 Roy Mark	EPIC Battle Brewing Over Personal Phone Data Telephone carriers are not adequately protecting the personal information of subscribers, increasing consumer vulnerability to identity theft, fraud and online stalkers.