Wired News: MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill
Legislature records confirm that the MPAA’s paid lobbyists worked on the measure. An aide to Bowen, who was forced out of the legislature by term limits and was elected Secretary of State, said the MPAA made its displeasure with the bill clear to lawmakers.”The MPAA told some members the bill would interfere with piracy investigations,” the aide said. The association “doesn’t want to hamstring investigators.”
The movie industry wants to be able to pretend to be you if they suspect you of terror… err downloading so they blocked a bill in California that would have made pretexting illegal. However the California Attorney General has already arrested the people who used pretexting in the HP Spying Scandal.
I don’t think they should make pretexting illegal, but I do think it should be a law that any company that offers pretexting must have security measures in place to prevent pretexting. I use Sprint for my cellphone and inorder to access any information online or over the phone I must enter my security code. Making it a law to password protect the pretext information is the only thing that makes sense to me.
