Verizon opt out CPNI list

Verizon Wireless: If you don’t opt out, we get to share your CPNI call data

This has been posted a few places over the weekend. I opted out when I read the enclosure in my Verizon bill, but it’s just luck that I ever read the details.

Verizon Wireless has been contacting its customers via mail to inform them of their intent to share CPNI data with "our affiliates, agents and parent companies (including Vodafone) and their subsidiaries." The company says that customers who do not want their CPNI data shared need to call 1-800-333-9956 to "opt-out." Upon dialing the opt-out number, Verizon customers will be prompted for their phone number, billing ZIP code, and last four digits of their Social Security Numbers (in the case of businesses, their Employer ID numbers).

Failure to opt out will be interpreted by Verizon Wireless as "consent" the company's data-sharing practices. Given that the FCC has been very concerned about the protection of CPNI data, we wonder if Verizon has truly given proper notice of their intent to share the data, and why.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071014-verizon-wireless-if-you-dont-opt-out-we-get-to-share-your-cpni-call-data.html