T-Mobile: Don't legislate consumer privacy rules
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Blog: A wireless company executive warns Congress against new laws that would control the way wireless companies handle their subscribers' personal information, saying they'd be out of date "as soon as the ink is dry."
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WASHINGTON -- Don't tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them. Second-hand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers and bank account passwords, business secrets and even evidence of adultery.
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A study released by the Customer Respect Group indicates that telecommunications companies are slipping when it comes to customer privacy, especially in comparison to retail and high-tech industries. A majority of companies surveyed were dound to ask for excessive, inappropriate personal data.
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As Congress calls telecom CEOs on the carpet, CNET News.com finds out how well the companies protect your privacy.
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What exactly does the law mean by "data quality," and what does it have to do with privacy?
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Consumers may be receptive to  advertisements on their mobile phones in exchange for free  calls or content, but operators remain cautious about intruding  on the intimate space of a customer's cell phone.
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Description: The Federal Communications Commission rules against state regulation of Internet phone services, voting unanimously to reserve regulatory control for itself.
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Top executives of Verizon  Communications, Sprint Nextel Corp., Cingular and T-Mobile USA  have been invited to testify Friday at a U.S. House Energy and  Commerce Committee hearing into the use of deceptive measures  to obtain personal information, known as pretexting, the panel  said on Monday.
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New FCC rules say open-source code for next-gen mobile tech has "high burden" to show it's secure. Some industry and security experts beg to differ.
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All that stands between you and seeing your cellphone turned into a conduit for endless sales-pitch intrusions is your mobile provider, who, for now at least, is skittish about violating any privacy laws. That could change, however.
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Few companies know as well as ChoicePoint the consequences of failing to secure the personal information of consumers.
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Senators threaten to enact an opt-in rule. Wireless carriers say it's not necessary because they're doing just that.
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Pretexting rebuffed In a victory for privacy advocates, a federal judge has ordered a US company to pay almost $200,000 and barred it from selling the phone records of individuals' phone records without their permission.â¦
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Anonymous data sets are an enormous boon for researchers, but the recent de-anonymization of Netflix customer data shows there are privacy risks as well. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Also: Cell phones won't keep your secrets. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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What exactly did the tech giant do and what does the law say when it comes to obtaining phone records? We offer some answers.
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A company finds a sneaky new way to silence security researchers: Claim that defeating its products infringes on patents. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.