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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 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 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 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 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 8, 2006 Roy Mark	The Murky World of Pretexting HP's actions may be legally questionable, but they sure were easy.
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 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.
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 September 26, 2006 Roy Mark	HP Pretexting Scandal Claims Two More Central figures in company's probe of boardroom leaks depart
InternetNews October 4, 2006 David Needle	Former HP Chairwoman Said to be Indicted HP's former lawyer and three investigators also to be charged.
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 September 28, 2006 Roy Mark	Dunn Distances Herself from HP Probe Tactics Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn plans to tell Congress today she only learned pretexting was used in a company investigation of boardroom media leaks until after the probe concluded.
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 25, 2006 Roy Mark	House Subpoenas Two HP Execs The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee issued subpoenas today for two HP executives and a private investigator to appear before Thursday's congressional hearing on HP's pretexting scandal.
InternetNews September 28, 2006 Roy Mark	HP Takes a Capitol Beating Hewlett-Packard took a Capitol Hill hammering Thursday over its handling of a boardroom media leaks probe gone awry.
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 October 4, 2006 Roy Mark	Pretexting Tactics Raised Red Flags Inside HP At least three members of the Hewlett-Packard team investigating boardroom media leaks expressed serious concerns over the pretexting tactics used by HP to obtain the personal call logs of board members and journalists.
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 October 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Dunn Arraignment Set for Thursday Former HP chairman heads to court one day after indictment.
InternetNews December 14, 2006 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Question Hurd's Option Action House panel probing HP's boardroom leaks scandal seeks answers to CEO Mark Hurd's options sales just days before the story became public.
InternetNews March 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Phone Data Privacy Bill Heats Up in Senate Momentum for a telephone data privacy bill began building in the U.S. Senate Wednesday, with Sen. George Allen introducing legislation to outlaw the acquiring, selling or soliciting of someone else's phone records without their express consent.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Roy Mark	Telecoms Refuse to Endorse Pretexting Bill Wireless carriers today said pretexting for telephone records should be criminalized, but were silent when it came to backing a bill imposing additional requirements on carriers to protect consumer records.
InternetNews November 17, 2006 Roy Mark	HP Spy Probe Gets an Upgrade SEC joins others investigating HP's role in boardroom leaks scandal.
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 September 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Congress Calls Still More HP Officials Less than a day after HP submitted documents to a U.S. House investigative committee relating to the company's pretexting scandal, the panel wants even more HP officials to testify at a Sept. 28 hearing.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Erin Joyce	HP Theater: No Smoking Guns, No Laws As political theater goes, the House Energy and Commerce Committee's hearing into spy tactics HP deployed to plug its boardroom leaks delivered all the elements, starting with outrage and dramatic gestures.
InternetNews September 28, 2006 Ed Sutherland	HP Counsel Baskins Resigns, Refuses to Testify HP general counsel's resignation and decision not to testify come ahead of Congressional hearings.
InternetNews October 10, 2006 David Needle	HP Investigators Arraigned in California Three of the outside investigators Hewlett-Packard hired to probe leaks of confidential information in its boardroom appeared at an arraignment hearing here today at the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
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 22, 2007 Roy Mark	Hurd: Options Exercise Was Legal HP chief denies any wrongdoing in letter to House committee probing the $1.37 million deal.
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Roy Mark	Proposed Legislation Challenges E411 Promises Lawmakers say new the wireless industry's promises are not enough to protect consumer privacy.
InternetNews October 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Hurd Does the 'DD' on Congress HP CEO's spy scandal defense is worthy of a lawyer named Racehorse.
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.
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 October 5, 2006 Clint Boulton	FTC Cracks Down on Internet Pretexter The Federal Trade Commission made it clear today that it won't tolerate any pretexting, barring an online business from advertising and selling consumers' phone and credit card account records to third parties.
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 November 15, 2006 David Needle	Former HP Chairman Dunn Pleads Not Guilty Patricia Dunn pleads not guilty in the pretexting case that rocked HP.
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 March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews September 22, 2004 Roy Mark	VZ Wireless Slams National 411 Directory Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest wireless carrier, clashed with other cellular carriers on Tuesday, telling a U.S. Senate committee that a proposed national wireless telephone directory is a "terrible idea" and should be scrapped.
InternetNews January 19, 2006 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Move Against Phone Record Brokers New legislation targets the illegal selling of personal telephone record data.
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 September 11, 2006 Roy Mark	FCC Questions AT&T Role in HP Scandal The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is launching a formal investigation into AT&T's role in disclosing the personal telephone records of HP board members and selected journalists to HP private investigators.
InternetNews December 18, 2006 Clint Boulton	Looking Back: A Scandalous Year For Tech From a pretexting scandal to backdated stock options and more, tech suffered some shameful exposure in 2006.
InternetNews October 12, 2006 Ed Sutherland	HP Stock Sales Raise Eyebrows HP CEO Hurd made more than $1M in stock options sale the week before pretexting scandal went public.
CFO November 1, 2006 McCafferty & Harris	Former Apple CFO Bitten by Backdating? CFOs of two different computer companies are indirectly accused of wrongdoing: backdating at Apple and pretexting at HP. Yet no one has said anything since.
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 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Are Carriers Doing Enough to Protect Consumer Data? The Federal Communications Commission launches a new inquiry into security practices of telephone companies.
InternetNews February 22, 2006 Roy Mark	House Widens Black Market Phone Data Probe The congressional hearings probing data brokers that sell personal phone records on the Internet have concluded, but the lawmakers' investigation continues.