AG Greg Abbott Has Your Back

Texas has filed its first - and probably not its last - lawsuit against a data broker and his companies for marketing consumers' private phone records. The companies in question are USA Skiptrace, AMS Research Services, Inc. and Worldwide Investigations Inc. Apparently, USA Skiptrace charges its customers $125 to get consumers' phone records, which includes the number of calls made and received, duration of calls, and dates and times of calls. Good grief. Feel violated yet? General Abbott believes the company uses one or more illegal pretexts for getting the information. Not cool. The maximum penalty for these violations is $20,000/per. Ah, snap! You in danger, John Strange (president of Skiptrace).

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