Lots of stuff from Jules the last few days. Check out his further comments on pretexting (for phone records) and the under-fire data broker industry. A snippit:

“Data brokers have become a very big factor in the last ten years. They are in the business of obtaining data in any way they can. They are at least three or four steps down the food chain from us. It is a business we chose not to go into,” the Kroll chairman said.

“Those people who are legitimate investigators and have followed the rules of the road over the last ten years have been greatly disadvantaged by these brokers.”

Mr Kroll believes that the data brokers are giving his industry a bad name, luring potential customers away from mainstream companies and exposing clients to illegal activity. “I think what you should see is federal legislation against these people,” he said.

I couldn't agree more...

Here's The Daily Caveat's take from back in January '06 on the whole phone records issue, which has frankly been brewing for many months. Also, some more recent thoughts on the recent HP debacle. We've covered the issue extensively so search the site for a plethora of related articles.

-- MDT

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