the privacy of information gathered about consumers by telephone companies. The recommendations cover Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI). CPNI is the information that is gathered by phone companies in the process of delivering services, such as numbers called, length of calls, and times calls were made. The FCC is currently conducting a rulemaking on CPNI under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Out of curiousity, was this before or after CALEA passed? It would be interesting if the CDA superseded the "legitimate needs of law enforcement" laws, though it probably has enough weasel words to prevent that from happening...
The law limits the use and disclosure of CPNI information:
a telecommunications carrier that receives or obtains customer proprietary network information by virtue of its provision of a telecommunications service shall only use, disclose, or permit access to individually identifiable customer proprietary network information in its provision of (A) the telecommunications service from which such information is derived, or (B) services necessary to, or used in, the provision of such telecommunications service, including the publishing of directories.
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