Start Thinking Of A Password: FCC Approves New Rules To Stop Pretexting
Your phone records just got password protected. The FCC wants to keep douchebags at Hewlett-Packard from impersonating you to obtain your phone records, so they've approved some new rules to help protect your privacy. From BusinessWeek:
In addition to the password protection, the rules also require carriers to ask for customers' permission when sharing private account information with business partners and independent contractors.Phone companies have contended that such an "opt-in" requirement violates their First Amendment right to communicate with customers -- a position that was backed by a federal court in 1999.
The new safeguards also require that consumers be notified immediately when there are changes made to their passwords, addresses or online accounts.
—MEGHANN MARCO
FCC announces pretexting rules [BusinessWeek]
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To be fair it wasn't HP who did the actual pretexting, it was a private investigator. However, certain officers did know.
i already have one, verizon wireless told me to think of one so my husband could be authorized to make changes to our account (under my name). hm. well, thanks, verizon, for giving me something i didn't know i wanted!
"Bosco" was George Costanza's ATM password.
Brilliant graphic Meghann.
For you Seinfeld Freaks: http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheSecretCode2.htm
"So what's your pleasure? Is it the salty snacks you crave? No no no no no, yours is a sweet tooth. Oh you may stray, but you'll always return to your dark master, the cocoa bean."
Actually this [expletive deleted]. So HP or one of their assigns goes riffling thru peoples lives and essentially dumps a nice big bill on the phone companies. Oh, like you think, that the system changes required won't cost nothing? They get off scot-free? Makes no sense.
HP should be made to pay every phone system operator in the country for the cost of upgrades, conversions and labor to implement this FCC order. For 5 years. {Though I am in favor that records should be password protected.}
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Yay! Thanks for the Bosco plug! (It's part of my family's business.)
Where was "Bosco" the password? For the life of me, I can't remember...