NationStates Jolt Archive


You can buy anyone's cell phone history for a hundred bucks!

The Nazz
13-01-2006, 21:32
If you've got a cell number to trace and a credit card with a hundred bucks open on it, you can buy the history. One blogger bought General Wesley Clark's (http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-cell13.html) call history and posted it, with blacked out numbers, on his website, after he'd done the same with his own phone.

Anyone else bothered by this?
Teh_pantless_hero
13-01-2006, 21:56
Businesses having been doing this shit for years. Your personal information is open to any person, company, or foreign government with cash to spare. The US has zero protections for American citizen's privacy as it pertains to companies.
Jocabia
13-01-2006, 22:45
I think this is an issue that you're going to find a LOT of people who normally don't agree on anything agreeing on. It's a clear invasion of privacy. One should have a reasonable expectation that such things are private.
Ifreann
13-01-2006, 22:53
Meh, what are they gonna do? Fine me for talking about under age drinking in my SMSs?
Heron-Marked Warriors
13-01-2006, 22:55
Meh, what are they gonna do? Fine me for talking about under age drinking in my SMSs?

They are now.
Sinuhue
13-01-2006, 22:57
No one really reads the fine print anymore...the fine print on the bottom of your department store club card application, your grocery store club card, etc etc...the part where you agree to release your information about purchases and so on. If they really wanted to, they could track your grocery purchases, your prescription purchases (if you buy at a shoppers drug mart) and so on. In fact, this information has been used against people in court before...a fellow slipped on a spill in a supermarket, sued the store, and then was presented with his purchasing history which included large amounts of alcohol as if to say, 'you were probably drunk, so drop it buddy'.
The Nazz
14-01-2006, 06:29
bump
Free Soviets
14-01-2006, 06:42
i smell a jumping off point for a privacy amendment to the constitution
The South Islands
14-01-2006, 06:51
i smell a jumping off point for a privacy amendment to the constitution

Ohh, if only it would really happen.

*fantasizes*
The Nazz
14-01-2006, 06:55
Ohh, if only it would really happen.

*fantasizes*
No kidding, especially since it looks like Alito is going to make it onto the Supreme Court.
The South Islands
14-01-2006, 06:57
No kidding, especially since it looks like Alito is going to make it onto the Supreme Court.

What does Alito have anything to do with an Amendment?
Kroisistan
14-01-2006, 06:58
No kidding, especially since it looks like Alito is going to make it onto the Supreme Court.

It really will save us time if we all make some room at our respective cribs for the telescreens now.
Cannot think of a name
14-01-2006, 07:01
Not enough swear words.
The Nazz
14-01-2006, 07:02
What does Alito have anything to do with an Amendment?
It's simple. Without an amendment, all our privacy rights are practically null and void once the Alito court gets hold of them. He'll be replacing a justice who, though conservative, at least had respect for stare decisis and established law. Without an amendment, kiss all your personal rights to privacy goodbye.
The Nazz
14-01-2006, 07:02
It really will save us time if we all make some room at our respective cribs for the telescreens now.
No kidding. And if we start learning newspeak now.
The South Islands
14-01-2006, 07:03
It's simple. Without an amendment, all our privacy rights are practically null and void once the Alito court gets hold of them. He'll be replacing a justice who, though conservative, at least had respect for stare decisis and established law. Without an amendment, kiss all your personal rights to privacy goodbye.

Oh. OK. I misunderstood what you were saying.

My apologies.
Sarkhaan
14-01-2006, 07:04
If they really wanted to, they could track your grocery purchases, your prescription purchases (if you buy at a shoppers drug mart)
I think that the prescription is protected under medical privacy laws...not sure about that tho.
The Nazz
14-01-2006, 07:10
Oh. OK. I misunderstood what you were saying.

My apologies.
De nada. I didn't take it personally.