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Verizon Wireless has apologized to President-Elect Barack Obama after several employees took a peek at his cell-phone records, but privacy advocates say what happened to Obama is just an example of what is happening to thousands of Americans. Verizon, which has 71,000 employees nationwide, said it learned last week about the access. Obama’s device was a basic flip phone and did not include e-mail or other features. The account had been inactive for several months. “We apologize to President-Elect Obama and will work to keep the trust our customers place in us every day,” said Lowell McAdam, president and chief executive at Verizon Wireless. Verizon said the information was not shared outside the company. “If that information was disclosed, there would have been an investigation by the FBI to find out if any federal laws were violated,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and a teacher of privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center. Not the First Time “As the circumstances of each individual employee’s access to the account are determined, the company will take appropriate actions,” McAdam said. “Employees with legitimate business needs for access will be returned to their positions, while employees who have accessed the account improperly and without legitimate business justification will face appropriate disciplinary action.” Verizon spokesperson Jeffrey Nelson declined to answer any of our questions and referred to a prepared statement. Later in the day, Verizon reportedly fired some employees involved in the incident. The peek into Obama’s cell phone records is just one example of how Obama’s privacy has been breached. Obama’s passport information was accessed earlier this year by snooping State Department employees who also took a peek at passport information for Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain. “The larger point here is the privacy problems (Obama) is experiencing is what is being…
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