April 9, 2007
RIAA and MPAA Lobby for Exemption from Privacy Bill
Today the RIAA and MPAA publicly lobbied state legislators for permission to essentially lie and deceive when pursuing potential song and movie pirates.
The State of California Senate is considering a bill that would bolster state privacy laws by banning the use of false statements and other misleading practices to get personal information; a tactic known as ‘pretexting’. Pretexting led to an enormous body of criticism when detectives hired by Hewlett-Packard Co. used it last year to obtain phone records of board members, journalists and critics.
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