FCC Adopts Tougher Phone Record Privacy Rules

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FCC Adopts Tougher Phone Record Privacy Rules

The FCC has issued an order aimed at toughening up protections for consumers' personal phone records after revelations last year of leaks. By Reuters InformationWeek

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued an order Monday aimed at toughening up protections for consumers' personal phone records after revelations last year of leaks.

The FCC said carriers such as AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., the two biggest telephone carriers, are prohibited from releasing customers' phone records when a customer calls the carrier except when a password is provided.

If a customer does not provide a password, carriers may not release the customer's phone call records except by sending it to the address of record or by the carrier calling the customer at the telephone number on record, the agency said.

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