As a follow up to John's post below on the cell phone issue, Congress has actually been acting unusually fast on this privacy issue. It has struck a chord. The lastest step was in the House Energy and Commerce Committee:
Fraudulently obtaining and selling a person's telephone records would become a crime under legislation approved Wednesday by a House committee.Too bad no one gave any of the Democrats on the Hill the idea that this could be a good political issue....oh, wait. John did. None of the smarty pants policy people (of which there are way too many) listened.
The bill also would require telecommunications companies to get consumers' permission before sharing information about their calling records with business partners.
