The Chicago Sun-Times printed a revealing article on January 13 that analyzes the growing phenomenon of web-based phone brokers. Top political blogger John Aravosis of AMERICAblog purchased the cell phone records of former 2004 Democratic primary candidate General Wesley Clark. Aravois sought to demonstrate the growing privacy concerns Clark responded to Aravois's muckraking, saying in an interview with the Sun Times that legal remedies are needed to stop companies from selling telephone records. The article further reports that California and New York are the first states to begin considering legislation to combat the loophole in state privacy laws that is allowing this to take place.