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

Verizon Wireless is [...] changing its terms of service to give the company the right to share sensitive calling data with third parties.

While CPNI data does not include explicit information identifying your name and address or your phone number [...] the data could easily be mined to see what kinds of businesses you call and how often.

Verizon Wireless has been contacting its customers via snail mail to inform them of their intent to share CPNI data with its "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." [...] Failure to opt-out will be interpreted by Verizon Wireless as "consent" to the company's data-sharing practices.