LA TIMES - The music and movie industries are lobbying state legislators
for permission to deceive when pursuing suspected pirates. The
for permission to deceive when pursuing suspected pirates. The
California Senate is considering a bill that would strengthen state
privacy laws by banning the use of false statements and other misleading
practices to get personal information. The tactic, known as pretexting,
created a firestorm of criticism when detectives hired by
Hewlett-Packard Co. used it last year to obtain phone records of board
members, journalists and critics.
But the Recording Industry Assn. of America and the Motion Picture Assn.
of America say they sometimes need to use subterfuge as they pursue
bootleggers in flea markets and on the Internet. . .
"I don't see why the recording industry shouldn't have to follow the
same laws that everyone else follows," said Fred von Lohmann, senior
staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights
group in San Francisco. "It appears they want to make the loophole so
big that nobody else has to follow the law, either." Hollywood succeeded
in killing a similar bill last year. Other opponents of the bill
included the California Chamber of Commerce and the Direct Marketing
Assn.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pretext
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privacy laws by banning the use of false statements and other misleading
practices to get personal information. The tactic, known as pretexting,
created a firestorm of criticism when detectives hired by
Hewlett-Packard Co. used it last year to obtain phone records of board
members, journalists and critics.
But the Recording Industry Assn. of America and the Motion Picture Assn.
of America say they sometimes need to use subterfuge as they pursue
bootleggers in flea markets and on the Internet. . .
"I don't see why the recording industry shouldn't have to follow the
same laws that everyone else follows," said Fred von Lohmann, senior
staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights
group in San Francisco. "It appears they want to make the loophole so
big that nobody else has to follow the law, either." Hollywood succeeded
in killing a similar bill last year. Other opponents of the bill
included the California Chamber of Commerce and the Direct Marketing
Assn.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pretext
7apr07,1,1936238.story?coll=la-headlines-business
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