Cell Phone records for sale via Internet

Following on an uproar this past summer in the USA over the availability of cell phone records from online investigation services, MacLean's Magazine conducted a similar investigation in Canada. It found that cell phone records for customers of all three Canadian wireless telephone companies are easily available from US-based online services, despite the clear illegality of such disclosure in Canada. Reporter Jonathon Gatehouse illustrated the problem by obtaining the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's cell phone records. MacLeans story EPIC's webpage on phone records Bell Canada response