Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: kgreer@mcnc.org (Ken Greer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Privacy and Itemized Billing (was: Re: 800 ANI) Message-ID: <10813@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Aug 90 11:14:33 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: kgreer@mcnc.org.UUCP (Ken Greer) Organization: MCNC; RTP, NC Lines: 36 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 566, Message 6 of 8 In article <10649@accuvax.nwu.edu> Kolkka Markku Olavi writes: >|> Privacy ?? I'm confused. You mean that in France I can >|> "non-invade" someone's privacy by calling him, but "invade" his >|> privacy by knowing his phone # (which I would know, since I had called >|> him) ? >The basic idea is to protect _your_ privacy by not showing to someone >else where you have called. If the nubers are shown on the bill, that >means that they are stored somewhere, and someone can go through them >to see if you have made any 'suspicious' calls. Don't you consider >this an invasion of your privacy? Excuse me, but I thought the discussion was about the printing of the numbers that I call, printed on _my_ phone bill ... which means that they would come to _me_ and then I could choose who or who not to show them to. So why store any part of the number ?? A lot of good it is to me to tell me I called someone (out of > five million in NC, say). >Don't you consider this an invasion of your privacy? Not unless the phone company decided to market this info, which so far, I have not heard any concrete evidence of. While we're on the subject, companies have known for a long time that even the exchange you live in tells a lot (well, a least some) about the person. Affluent neighborhoods will be targeted much more for some marketing ploys than will be a ghetto neighborhood. Kim L. Greer try: klg@orion.mc.duke.edu Duke University Medical Center kgreer@mcnc.org Div. Nuclear Medicine POB 3949 klg@dukeac.ac.duke.edu Durham, NC 27710 919-660-2711x5223 fax: 919-681-5636