Amp'd Mobile Faces $100,000 Fine over Lax Data Safety

by Jordan Yerman | April 8, 2007 at 08:31 am

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This actually took place the other week and slipped below my radar, but is still to be resolved.

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Federal Communications Commission is proposing a $100,000 fine against Amp'd Mobile Inc., the wireless phone company aimed at the youth market, for failing to protect consumers' personal calling records from thieves.

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The proposed fine is at least the fourth such action since January by the FCC against U.S. companies for failing to comply with rules requiring that consumer phone records be protected by internal safeguards. The FCC promised "aggressive, substantial steps" to crack down on phone companies that fail to protect such records.

Amp'd Mobile assured the FCC in a letter in February that its internal procedures protect customer phone records but did not specify those procedures. The company did not return telephone messages and e-mails The Associated Press left Wednesday at its Los Angeles headquarters, its Washington lawyer's office and its public relations firm.

Amp'd is aimed at kids, and with all the hand-wringing over protecting Our Children in the digital age, somehow use of the phone gets overlooked?