Existing carrier practices and regulations are inadequate to stop this trade in personal information.

In the political field, candidates and parties have gotten away with a lot of practices that would clearly be illegal if a business did them. Both parties are using detailed databases of personal information that are completely unregulated. And they're not likely to be regulated, because the politicians themselves would have to limit their activities in order to do so.

It's just a lot easier to fool someone into giving you this information than to actually crack into a computer system.

It clearly can be dangerous for some people to have this information. Imagine how costly exposure of these records could be for a business executive whose list of calls is obtained by a competitor. There can be real harm.

And these records are just as sensitive as financial information because they reveal our associations, and in some cases location,

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.