49-31-121Obtaining 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.