I thought I’d pass this along to my friends and family that use Verizon. They are going to sell all of your call records unless you ask them not to. Please call and ask them not to. I hope you get angry and dump them all together. More and more I wonder if there are any good mobile phone companies out there. Besides this absurd breach of your privacy, Versizon has recently attacked Vonage with frivolous patent claims. A good company like Vonage is getting squeezed out of a competitive market by Verizon. How does this type of capitalism benefit the consumer? The same way selling all of your call data does. Negatively!

Check out this post on Slashdot and get your personal data out before it gets sold!

An anonymous reader writes to let us know that Verizon Wireless is planning to share its customers’ calling records (called CPNI) with “our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries.” The article explains that CPNI “includes the numbers of incoming and outgoing calls and time spent on each call, among other data.” Some subscribers, it’s not known if it’s all of them, received a letter in the mail giving them 30 days to opt out of this sharing by calling 1-800-333-9956. Skydeck, a mobile and wireless services company, seems to have been the first to call attention to the Verizon initiative on their blog; they also posted a scan of the letter (sideways PDF) from Verizon.

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