fringe: unlisted phone number information

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

From: Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>
To: dataloss () attrition org
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:18:25 -0600

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/12/site-leaking-un.html

A site that allows consumers to compare prices for digital phone, internet 
and TV services has been leaking private address information belonging to
people with unlisted phone numbers.

The site DigitalLanding.com, which is owned by Acceller, Inc., initially 
said it was not doing anything wrong and that the information it provided 
was all publicly available, despite the fact that addresses connected to 
unlisted numbers are not intended to be public by customers who pay a fee 
to protect that information or, presumably, by the phone companies that 
offer unlisted numbers to their customers. Acceller has since recanted and 
announced that it's in the process of fixing the data so that information 
belonging to people with unlisted numbers will be protected.

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