Verizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders
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Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005.
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Cingular Wireless LLC and Verizon Wireless, the two biggest US mobile-phone services providers, have sued investigators for Hewlett-Packard Co. , alleging they used fraud to obtain billing records in a probe of boardroom leaks.
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Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S. authorities fighting children's access to pornography, said yesterday it was complying with a Brazilian court's orders to turn over data that could help identify users accused of taking part in online communities that...
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A federal judge said investigators must have a courtâs approval before they can order Internet providers to turn over records without telling customers.
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A federal judge in New Jersey granted the injuction to Verizon Wireless, though the carrier did not get the $150,000 in damages it was seeking.
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On the heels of a similarÂ suit filed Thursday by Verizon Wireless Inc., Cingular Wireless LLC on Friday suedÂ private investigators used by Hewlett-Packard Co. to obtain phone records of a CNET News.com journalist.
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Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications, two of the country&#39;s biggest cellphone operators, said yesterday that they planned to drop their lawsuits against each other.
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The feds accidentally give a D.C. attorney a classified document showing that the NSA intercepted his phone calls without a warrant. When they ask for it back, they get a $2 million lawsuit along with it. By Ryan Singel.
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Verizon Wireless has rejected a  request from an abortion rights advocacy group to set up text  message alerts for subscribers who signed up for the  information, but a company spokesman said on Thursday it was  reviewing its text messaging policy.
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Verizon Communications Inc. VZ.N   said on Wednesday it had dropped a surcharge for high-speed   Internet service after U.S. regulators questioned whether the   No. 2 U.S. telephone carrier was following truthful billing   practices.
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A U.S. district judge struck down the section of the act that requires telephone and ISPs to turn over records to the government without telling customers.
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AT&amp;T Inc.  said on Wednesday it  was revising its privacy policy, explaining to customers that  it owns their phone records and can hand them over to law  enforcers if necessary.
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Verizon Wireless and Nextel Communications, two of the country&#39;s biggest cell phone operators, said yesterday that they planned to drop their lawsuits against each other.
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Verizon Communications Inc. has charged that Internet phone carrier Vonage Holdings Corp. violated patent rights that Verizon has on technology for making phone calls over the Internet.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)&#160;has settled a complaint with a Web-based company it accused of selling people&#39;s telephone records without permission, the agency said Monday.The settlement with CEO Group, doing business as Check Em Out, bars the company and its operator Scott Joseph from marketing or selling phone records, and it requires the company to give up $25,000 of its profits from selling phone records. Selling phone records to third parties is illegal under federal law, the FTC had charged.The FTC in May 2006 filed complaints in U.S. court against five Web-based companies that obtained and sold confidential phone records to third parties. In addition to the settlement with CEO Group, the FTC has settled two other cases and obtained a default judgment against a fourth company. The complaint against the fifth company is still active.The FTC&#39;s complaints came after complaints from privacy groups and members of the U.S. Congress about pretexting, when someone obtains a telephone customers&#39; records without permission under false pretexts. In many cases, companies offering phone records over the Internet were calling telephone carriers and pretending to be the targeted customer. In September 2006,&#160;Hewlett-Packard revealed it had been spying on some of its board members and journalists in an attempt to uncover the source of boardroom leaks, and HP officials later said their investigators had used pretexting to obtain phone records.The Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibits customers&#39; phone records from being disclosed unless &quot;upon affirmative written request by the customer.&quot; The FTC charged the five Web-based companies of engaging in unfair business practices.The settlement with CEO Group prohibits it from obtaining, marketing or selling consumer phone records or other consumer personal information except where allowed by law, the FTC said in a news release. The settlement, approved by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, includes a judgment of $222,381, the amount the company earned by selling phone records, but the defendants said they were able to pay only $25,000. If the court finds that the defendants misrepresented their finances, the entire amount will be due, the FTC said.
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When Verizon Wireless filed an almost perfunctorily brief lawsuit against the FCC in a federal appeals court on Monday, analysts and wireless industry observers were baffled. With the FCC having written up the 700 MHz spectrum auction order in late July, didn't the company have enough time to complain then? Surprisingly, a clue to its motives comes not from itself or its lawsuit but from the FCC.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday sidestepped a dispute over whether Internet providers can be forced to identify subscribers illegally swapping music and movies online.