Wood and the publisher disagree on whether the information that had been posted was accurate. The publisher said all the data was available online, while Wood said he refuses to believe that anyone was able to "reverse engineer" the listings from that information. "You might be able to make a stab at it," Wood said. "But look at the detail (that was once posted on the site). There's stuff there beyond the PRL." The debate has inspired at least one organization to question whether Verizon has the right to insist the information remain private. "So long as the sources [the publisher] used were public information and [the publisher] had no reason to suspect they were stolen, they've got a right to publish. That's what the First Amendment is all about," said Fred Von Lohman, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group. The Federal Communications Commission said it does not have any regulations on publicising the details of coverage areas. The same site reportedly posted similar listings of Sprint PCS. A Sprint PCS spokesman declined comment. The Verizon Wireless spokesman said it asked another Web site, which linked to the controversial information, to remove the link.
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