Saturday, January 14, 2006

How much warrantless searching will $89.95 get you?

Published on Friday, January 13, 2006 by the Chicago Sun Times

Blogger Buys Presidential Candidate's Call List

by Frank Main 

  

One of the nation's top political bloggers purchased the cell phone records of former presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark on Thursday to demonstrate the growing privacy concerns highlighted in a Chicago Sun-Times story last week. 

John Aravosis, publisher of AMERICAblog.com, said he bought Clark's records for $89.95 from celltolls.com. Aravosis said he obtained a list of 100 calls made on Clark's cell phone over three days in November -- no questions asked. Read on

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