In a decision by the 10th Circuit of the US Federal Court, telephone companies can use customers' personal information to market additional products and services without the customers' prior approval. This ruling demonstrates, once again, that the courts have no clue about personal information and that government regulations may not be the best avenue to protect the privacy rights of citizens.
Free speech requires interest of both speaker AND audience.
The court automatically assumed the first amendment need for US West without considering whether consumers are interested in it or not. The FCC, apparently, did not clearly identified what the privacy concerns are. However, this ignores all other concerns, including the desire to control one's information and the right to own the commercial benefit from which. By this argument, US West assumes that it owns CPNI information. That is incorrect, because this is information about us, not about US West.