Cellular telecommunications companies in India this week received a sharp reprimand from a Bombay court which ruled Vodaphone violated consumer privacy rights by sharing database information with call centers and other organizations, DNA India reports. In his ruling, Justice S.D. Dharmadhikari made a distinction between the type of information formerly made publicly available through telephone directories and the kind of information being sold by the cellular telephone company: "Subscribers' numbers are made available to call centers and other agencies. It appears that unlike telephone directories, which were maintained in earlier days, all the details of subscribers are put up [for sale] by service providers."
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