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Intelius Claims 240M in Wireless Phone Number Directory

Tricia Duryee reports in the Seattle Times that Intellius, a commercial data broker, is about to amass a database of 240 million wireless phone numbers:

People who visit www.intelius.com can enter a person’s name to get a cellphone number, or do the reverse by entering a number to get the subscriber’s name. Each search costs $15.

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San Francisco Chronicle Oped Addresses Identity Theft Reporting

The Samuelson Clinic’s Chris Hoofnagle published an oped in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, arguing in favor of mandatory identity theft reporting requirements for financial institutions and payment companies. The oped is based upon Hoofnagle’s recent article, Identity Theft: Making the Unknown Knowns Known, which is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Hoofnagle explains:  read more »

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