Web sites selling your cell phone records for just $100

[Jared Moya]

You may already be a victim of cellular "records rip-off" and not even know it.

Anyone -- a stalker, a jealous lover, a curious employer -- with merely your cell-phone number can visit one of several Web sites, pay around $100, and in a few hours find out whom you've been calling and who's been calling you.

Indeed, the Web site Americablog revealed last week that it successfully obtained the records of Gen. Wesley Clark, the former presidential candidate.

"All we needed was General Clark's cell phone number and our credit card, and 24 hours later we had one hundred calls the general made on his cell phone in November," according to a posting on the site, which said it contacted Clark about its efforts to expose the dangers of the practice, which is in a legal gray area.

The problem has prompted lawsuits and increasing attention from lawmakers, but some 40 or so companies have kept at it.

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[pimpinaman]

...NPR did a story on this one recently...kind of a scary thought....that just anyone with some $$ and an internet connection can find out who you are calling on your cell phone.