And so are the cellphone records of everyone else, says the Chicago Sun-Times, which quotes $160 as the price for full phone records of an FBI agent.
Well, this is an uh-oh moment for whistleblowers–but good news for stalkers, your boss, and politcal smear-mongers.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) .. has called for legislation to criminalize phone record theft and use…”Though this problem is all too common, federal law is too narrow to include this type of crime,” Schumer said last year in a prepared statement.”
Aldo Castañeda and I had an interesting talk at last week’s Dave Winer blogdinner about the huge buzz around digital identity. My view: “emerging transparency” is a huge unstoppable freight train headed our way.
I just didn’t know it was moving this fast.
Thanks to Crooks and Liars for the link.