![]() Phone-company employees snooping for fun would be one thing, but the danger seems to go beyond that to include information being passed to outsiders, such as private investigators, he said. “How can you tell when your (authorized) employee is looking at records in an inappropriate context? That’s the challenge that the phone companies have to deal with.” “It is very easy to obtain wireless phone records of another person,” said Chris Hoofnagle, director of the information privacy program at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law & Technology. ![]() ![]() But neither are there clear protections, they charge. There have been few cases of internal snooping on mobile records, at least ones that have seen the light of day, according to attorneys and analysts in this area. ![]() The risk is greater with current accounts than with closed ones like the Obama record that was snooped, Schwartz said, because some types of data are kept longer than others. The information can also include your locations when you started and ended the call, as determined by cell towers or other techniques, CDT Senior Counsel John Morris said. ![]()
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