Phone Privacy Bill in US Senate

U.S. PIRG Consumer Blog  reports on what it calls an “Awful Phone Privacy Bill.”

Here's a consumer letter (PIRG, Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America) opposing S 2389, a bill marked up today in Senate Commerce that purports to protect consumer phone records from pretext calling and other privacy invasions. From the letter:

“We remain deeply concerned that the bill neither requires carriers to implement meaningful safeguards to protect their customers private information nor addresses the problem of widespread sharing of CPNI data by carriers. Given the absence of stronger federal protections for consumers and the broad state preemption preventing states from adopting effective privacy measures, we are unable to support the bill in its current form.”