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Code · South Dakota · Title 49 · Chapter 49-31

49-31-121. Obtaining confidential communications records without authorization from customer as misdemeanor.

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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.
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