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So what happens when someone is snooping around and easily finds your cell phone records? Well who knew but I guess there are services that will provide you with "free cell phone records". Oh yeah I'll be googling that one later today, anyone use one of these services? Any luck on getting the goodies?
Well John Hargrave from zug.com went snooping and he got the cell phone number and address of he CEO of Verizon Phones Ivan Seidenberg. So what do you do when you have their addresses? Oh yeah you show up with a bullhorn outside their house to yell at them about there privacy....too funny
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Yeah that is what I had read that he found it by sites that give off free stuff. That was his whole point his bullhorn yelling that there needs to be more privacy. Now that I'm home from work I'm going to do some looking around to see if I can find sites like that. 
Do share your findings!
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From Zug.com who organized this prank and others:
Verizon's response:
I e-mailed Verizon Wireless with a similar complaint about sharing my cell phone records, and received the following reply.
Dear William Phillips,
My name is Sue, and I am so sorry you received a call from a marketing company
. I would be happy to assist you this afternoon. I would also like to apologize for the delay in my response to your email. We are experiencing substantial e-mail volumes at this time and I regret any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Please let me reassure you that we do not release any information to other companies about you or your account. Verizon Wireless has a long-standing policy of guarding personal customer information, and has no plans to publish its customers' wireless numbers. Your wireless phone number is unlisted unless you request otherwise. Please also be assured Verizon Wireless does not sell or distribute account information to unrelated third parties. However, Verizon Wireless may share customer information with its affiliates, agents and parent companies (Verizon Communications and Vodafone) so that those entities may market their services to Verizon Wireless customers.
If you do not want your information shared in this way, please sign in to "My Verizon
" and choose the "My Profile" tab. Click on the "View/Edit Privacy (CPNI) Settings" link under the "Cell Phone Controls" section and update your preference. Or you may call the "Verizon Wireless Opt Out Line" at 1-800-333-9956 and your request will be honored.
As a friendly reminder, if you give your wireless number as a contact number to a company (e.g. credit card company) and do not specify it is your wireless number, your information may be sold to other companies unless otherwise stipulated. If you are interested in adding your number to the National Do Not Call registry to prevent telemarketing calls, please call 888-382-1222 or visit the following link:
William, I hope the information I have provided on Verizon Wireless's policy of sharing your information has been helpful. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Verizon Wireless! I am confident you will come to love our great network coverage and excellent customer service, even if you don't win your contest. We appreciate your business and thank you for using Verizon Wireless. If you have any further questions or concerns, please reply to this email.
Sincerely,
Sue
Verizon Wireless
Customer Service
~karma: i'm countin on it~
seems sneaky, but once i did some research (and maybe you can dig up more than i was able to Smartmom!) it seems that the information stays w/in the company but can be given to their products promotion people etc.
this happened to me with a new credit card i signed up for if you remember me griping about being called and charged for something but never actually saying i wanted it and thinking the whole time it was the c.c. company but it was in fact their outsourced marketing people. when i called later to give them a "what-for" 
they said that they would take me off "Their List" and that i would basically be put on their DO NOT CALL list for marketing stuff. (comment#6)
It's a pain to have to do that but seems like it's becoming the norm.
Separate but relatedly, from what i understand if you are on the Do Not Call list (at least the govn't one) and someone calls you for you to buy something (and you are not currently a customer of theirs) then it is against the law.
Verizon Wireless Comment on CPNI
Posted by Jim Gerace in PolicyBlog on October 15, 2007, 05:33 PM EST
Let's be clear: Verizon Wireless does not sell personal customer information to third-party advertisers. Period.
The notice that was sent (and the cause of some buzz) simply alerts our customers that Verizon Wireless may share customer information with the Verizon group of companies.
In other words, we are keeping all the data in question in the family – unless you tell us not to.
Our customers are asking us for bundles that provide home and wireless services, and the sharing of information -- like where our wired network customers overlap with wireless -- allows us to provide these bundles.
We believe that it will benefit our customers to be able to share information with Verizon affiliates, so that they can receive information about all products and services that Verizon has to offer, including bundled offerings of Verizon Telecom and Verizon Wireless. Customers who don't want that information can tell us so, by "opting outâ€.
If a Verizon Wireless customer doesn't want his/her information shared in this way, Verizon Wireless will honor the customer's request. Verizon Wireless has a long-standing policy of guarding personal customer information.
The Opt-Out notices we're providing to our customers are so they can opt-out of our sharing their basic information with other Verizon companies, and that's it. We're only asking customers whether they want to opt out now, because we wanted to make sure our back-office systems - I.T., customer service, etc. - were all ready to go to handle customer questions.
There's a right way to send Opt-Out notices; the FCC rules themselves prescribe specifically that opt-out is the way to share information with telecommunications affiliates, to market telecom services. FCC rules also provide certain required language, which we followed.
FCC is also clear about this: you use "Opt-Out" with customers if you're looking to share across affiliates/parent companies, etc. - so customers would be getting information from within the same family of products/services. "Opt-In" is required if a company were addressing the issue of sharing customer information beyond - for example to non-telecom services. We aren't doing that.
For additional information on Verizon Wireless and customer privacy, go to: www.verizonwireless.com/privacy
For information about telecommunications consumer privacy issues, go to: www.fcc.gov
~karma: i'm countin on it~
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Cell phone records as in your address? or cell phone records as in who you call/who calls you, etc.?
Both are an invasion of privacy just curious. Wonder how that happens? Someone who works there maybe?
Pretty funny what that guy did!!!!!!
~karma: i'm countin on it~