What Is the Privacy Protection Act of 2006?
A person’s telephone records contain valuable personal information like his billing or home address and credit card information. Unfortunately, this information can be sold or used without the knowledge of its rightful owner. To stop these illegal acts from spreading into wider territories, the United States government came up with H.R. 4709, also known as the Telephone Records and Privacy Protection Act of 2006, which protects citizens and law enforcement officials by criminalizing the act of pretexting in order to solicit or sell confidential phone records.
The timing of this law couldn’t be more perfect. Everyday, more and more people’s lives are destroyed by this terrible privacy bug. Hundreds, probably even millions, have lost many of their personal belongings and dignity because of people who have nothing but personal glory in their minds.
A positive response to the government’s new privacy law is the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new set of policies that require telephone companies to execute extra caution in dealing with customers’ personal information. These policies, together with the Privacy Protection Act of 2006, will give more telephone consumers enough reason to relax and believe that they are now safe from fraudulent intruders.
The harsh penalties of the Privacy Protection Act of 2006 shall serve as a relentless warning to identity and information thieves. A person caught pretending to be someone else in order to persuade telephone companies to release confidential customer information, and the act of acquiring customer account information by the use of the Internet, or through any other fraudulent computer-related activity, will be subject to 10 years in prison and may be asked to pay a fine of $500,000.00. Only those duly authorized by federal or state laws are exempted from this law.
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