The House Judiciary Committee has agreed to criminalize the solicitation or sale of online black market telephone records.
The proposed bill, approved for submission last Thursday, would set a maximum prison term of 20 years for attempting to obtain confidential phone records through such frauds as assuming the identity of a real customer.
The bill also sets a maximum five-year imprisonment for Web operators selling or transferring confidential phone records without authorization. Those buying the records could also face five years of jail time.
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