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What's Holding Up a Pretexting Law?
time.com — The HP spying scandal has shown why federal legislation is needed to crack down on data thieves who impersonate people to get their personal information. So why are advocates of the law still getting a busy signal on Capitol Hill?
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- georgehotelling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Maybe the advocates should just pretend to be congress and call up the congressional record to let them know they passed the bill.
- haggie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because there are already laws governing fraud and identity theft.
Using the word "pretexting" should be made illegal.- scrubadub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1exactly what do you want, a law that makes lying illegal?
- jonathono2000, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0I am guessing that its a bad foundation.
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Sorry. - Leviathan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@haggie
RTFA.
Prosecutors have a hard time bringing these cases under existing statutes, in particular because the law is not clear on a) how anyone is defrauded by the practice and b) whether or not the victims have any claim to privacy over their own phone records.
What's holding up passing such a law is that the Government - and in particular law and intelligence agencies under this administration - are using such scams to spy on citizens.
And if that doesn't make you hopping mad - why do you hate America?
Yeah, "pretexting", as a word, is teh ghey. - Obvioustroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ummmm... How has the HP scandal shown that a federal law is needed?
Why can't California's own laws be used? - stratton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I want someone to slip in an amendment to force HP to change the name of their "Integrity" line of servers to "Pretexting".
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