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Who's Been Snooping Through Barack Obama's Records?

Who's Been Snooping Through Barack Obama's Records?
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Has President-elect Barack Obama's privacy already been breached?

Mobile phone service provider Verizon Wireless has informed Obama's political team that the billing records from his cell phone were unlawfully breached by company employees, CNN reports.

Robert Gibbs, a spokesperson for Obama, tells CNN that the billing records would show the phone numbers and frequency of calls made by the newly-elected president but he says, "nobody was monitoring voicemail or anything like that."

In an e-mail obtained by CNN, Verizon Wireless Vice President and CEO Lowell McAdam, writes that the phone has been inactive for several months and did not have e-mail capabilities.

According to McAdam, employees that accessed the phone's records for legitimate reasons would be allowed to return to work but Verizon employees who used the records for "anything other than legitimate business purposes will face disciplinary action, up to and including termination."

The CEO continues that Verizon has started an ongoing internal investigation to determine the way in which the records were used and whether or not "the information of our customer had in any way been compromised outside our company, and this investigation continues."

Posted November 21, 2008 1:55:00 AM
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