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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 26, 2006 01:17pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Weekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine |
| News Date | Sunday, March 19, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By KRISTINA DELL
Posted Sunday, Mar. 19, 2006
Wesley Clark built a campaign for President as an expert in national security. But he recently discovered a hole in his personal security--his cell phone. A resourceful blogger, hoping to call attention to the black market in phone records, turned the general into his privacy-rights guinea pig in January. For $89.95, he purchased, no questions asked, the records of 100 cell-phone calls that Clark had made. (He revealed the ruse to Clark soon after.) "It's like someone taking your wallet or knowing who paid you money," Clark says. "It's no great discovery, but it just doesn't feel right." Since then, Clark has become a vocal supporter of the movement to outlaw the sale of cell-phone records to third parties.
The U.S.'s embrace of mobile phones--about 65% of the population are subscribers--has far outpaced efforts to keep what we do with them private. That has cleared the way for a cottage industry devoted to exploiting phone numbers, calling records and even the locations of unsuspecting subscribers for profit. A second business segment is developing applications like anonymous traffic monitoring and employee tracking. It's not just the con artists who are a worry. Every new mobile-phone technology, even a useful, perfectly legal one, comes with unintended privacy concerns. |
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