nications, information about their purchases, infor-
mational inquiries, political or religious interests, or 
other affiliations. 
(4) Disclosure of personal telephone records can 
also lead to harassment, intimidation, physical harm, 
and identity theft. 
(5) The government has a compelling interest 
in protecting sensitive personal information con-
tained in customer telephone records and ensuring 
that commercial interests adequately protect such 
records in order to preserve individual freedom, safe-
guard personal privacy, and ensure trust in elec-
tronic commerce. 
(6) Because customers have a proprietary inter-
est in their sensitive personal information, customers 
should have some control over the use and disclosure 
of telephone calling records. 
(7) A telecommunications carrier may use ag-
gregated data it has obtained from its customer 
databases to improve services, solicit new business, 
or market additional services to its customers. 
(8) A telecommunications carrier may commu-
nicate to all consumers in order to broadly solicit 
new business, and may also target specific commu-
nications to its own existing customers, without use 
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or disclosure of detailed customer calling records 
and thus without the threat of compromising cus-
tomer privacy. 
(9) The risk of compromising customer privacy 
is raised and increased whenever additional entities 
or persons are permitted use of, or access to, or re-
ceive disclosure of, customer calling records beyond 
the carrier with which the customer has an estab-
lished business relationship. 
(10) A telecommunications carrier which ob-
tains or possesses a customer’s calling records has a 
duty to safeguard the confidentiality of such cus-
tomer’s personal information. Detailed customer 
calling records describing the customer’s use of tele-
communications services should not be publicly avail-
able or offered for commercial sale. 
SEC. 202. EXPANDED PROTECTION FOR DETAILED CUS-
TOMER RECORDS. 
(a) CONFIDENTIALITY
OF
CUSTOMER
INFORMA-
TION.—Paragraph (1) of section 222(c) of the Commu-
nications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 222(c)(1)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(1) PRIVACY
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
TELE-
COMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as required by 
law or as permitted under the following provi-
sions of this paragraph, a telecommunications 
carrier that receives or obtains individually 
identifiable customer proprietary network infor-
mation (including detailed customer telephone 
records) by virtue of its provision of a tele-
communications service shall only use, disclose, 
or permit access to such information or records 
in the provision by such carrier of— 
‘‘(i) the telecommunications service 
from which such information is derived; or 
‘‘(ii) services necessary to, or used in, 
the provision of such telecommunications 
service, including the publishing of direc-
tories. 
‘‘(B) REQUIREMENTS FOR DISCLOSURE OF 
DETAILED
INFORMATION.—A 
telecommuni-
cations carrier may only use detailed customer 
telephone records through, or disclose such 
records to, or permit access to such records by, 
a joint venture partner, independent contractor, 
or any other third party (other than an affil-
iate) if the customer has given express prior au-
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thorization for that use, disclosure, or access, 
and that authorization has not been withdrawn. 
‘‘(C) REQUIREMENTS FOR AFFILIATE USE 
OF BOTH GENERAL AND DETAILED INFORMA-
TION.—A telecommunications carrier may not, 
except with the approval of a customer, use in-
dividually identifiable customer proprietary net-
work information (including detailed customer 
telephone records) through, or disclose such in-
formation or records to, or permit access to 
such information or records by, an affiliate of 
such carrier in the provision by such affiliate of 
the services described in clause (i) or (ii) of 
subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(D) REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTNER AND 
CONTRACTOR
USE
OF
GENERAL
INFORMA-
TION.—A telecommunications carrier may not, 
except with the approval of the customer, use 
individually identifiable customer proprietary 
network information (other than detailed cus-
tomer telephone records) through, or disclose 
such information to, or permit access to such 
information by, a joint venture partner or inde-
pendent contractor in the provision by such 
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partner or contractor of the services described 
in clause (i) or (ii) of subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(E) ACCESS
TO
WIRELESS
TELEPHONE 
NUMBERS.—A telecommunications carrier may 
not, except with prior express authorization 
from the customer, disclose the wireless tele-
phone number of any customer or permit access 
to the wireless telephone number of any cus-
tomer.’’. 
(b) DISCLOSURE OF DETAILED INFORMATION ON 
REQUEST BY CUSTOMER.—Section 222(c)(2) of such Act 
is amended by inserting ‘‘(including a detailed customer 
telephone record)’’ after ‘‘customer proprietary network 
information’’. 
(c) AGGREGATE DATA.—Section 222(c)(3) of such 
Act is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘Aggregation of data that is conducted by a 
third party may be treated for purposes of this subsection 
as aggregation by the carrier if such aggregation is con-
ducted in a secure manner under the control or super-
vision of the carrier.’’. 
(d) PROHIBITION OF SALE OF GENERAL OR DE-
TAILED INFORMATION.—Section 222(c) of such Act is fur-
ther amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
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