Nov 21 2008
Barack Obama’s Cell Phone Records Breached by Verizon Employees
In a lesson for those who have access to personal data, Barack Obama’s cell phone records were apparently breached:
Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of the cell phone company, his transition team said Thursday.
An Obama spokesman said the transition team was told employees at Verizon Wireless looked through billing records.Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the team was notified Wednesday by Verizon Wireless that it appears an employee improperly went through billing records for the phone, which Gibbs said Obama no longer uses.
In an internal company e-mail obtained by CNN, Verizon Wireless President and CEO Lowell McAdam disclosed Wednesday that “the personal wireless account of President-elect Barack Obama had been accessed by employees not authorized to do so” in recent months.
This goes to show you that everyone is susceptible to a breach of personal information. You take someone with the “rock star” status of Barack Obama and the temptation for employees is just too great. It’s in our nature to be curious, but it is unforgivable to invade someone’s privacy like this. Here is another example of our voyeuristic society.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 am
Seems there were a lot of daily calls to country code 966!
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 am
What about the disclosure of Senator Obama’s Selective Service files? Seems that one slipped under the radar!
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/11/exclusive_did_n.html.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Should have voted against FISA like you originally said you would. Sucks doesn’t it.