Obtaining confidential communications records without authorization from customer as misdemeanor

No person may obtain, or attempt to obtain, confidential communications records information from a communications provider, without authorization from the customer to whom such confidential communications records information relates, by knowingly and intentionally: (1) Making false or fraudulent statements or representations to an employee of a communications provider; (2) Making false or fraudulent statements or representations to a customer of a communications provider; (3) Providing false documentation to a communications provider knowing that the documentation is false; (4) Wrongfully accessing customer accounts of a communications provider via the internet; or (5) Receiving confidential communications records information knowing such information has been obtained by fraudulent, deceptive, or false means. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor. Source: SL 2006, ch 238 , § 2.