Legal Opinion
Federal Trade Commission v. Accusearch Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 29, 2009No. 08-8003PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Abika.com is a website that has sold various personal data, including telephone records. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought suit against the operator of the website, Accusearch Inc., and its president and owner, Jay Patel (collectively, Accusearch), to curtail Accusearch’s sale of confidential information and to require it to disgorge its profits from the sale of information in telephone records. The FTC alleged that Accusearch’s trade in telephone records (which are protected from disclosure under " § 702 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. § 222…
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