ATLANTA, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee's Consumer Affairs, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee held a hearing on protecting consumers' phone records.
Cingular Wireless continues to take aggressive action to stop "Cell Phone Records Ripoffs" --- the unauthorized sale of customer phone records. Last month Cingular obtained Temporary Restraining Orders against the operators of websites including locatecell.com, celltolls.com, peoplesearchamerica.com, datafind.org, and efindoutthetruth.com. Cingular believes that data brokers - perhaps more appropriately called "data burglars" - typically attempt to obtain customer records through "pre-texting." For example, the fraudster may call customer service and pose as a telephone operator helping a customer with hearing disabilities or who recently underwent throat surgery.
The following comment may be attributed to Kent Wells, vice president - federal legislative affairs, Cingular Wireless.
"Cingular shares a common goal with Congress - to protect consumer privacy. That is why Cingular supports enactment of tough new laws to criminalize the practices being used by the data burglars and any others who sell stolen phone records. We commend Congress for its attention to this important issue."
About Cingular Wireless
Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 54.1 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between AT&T Inc., formerly SBC Communications Inc., , and BellSouth Corporation , has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(TM) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is a leader in third generation wireless technology. Its 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) technology. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(R), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/. Get Cingular Wireless press releases e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://cingular.mediaroom.com/
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