Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Call Detail Recording Message-ID: <11669@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 1 Sep 90 19:14:26 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 24 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 617, Message 5 of 10 After reading parts one and two of the Epson special, an interesting question has come to mind. What about Call Detail Recording? A short time back, a distant acquaintance dropped by to conduct a matter of business. During the visit, he asked to use the telephone. No problem. He made a couple of calls and happened to notice the sound of a printer in the other room everytime he hung up the phone. In response to his inquiry, I told him that it was SMDR that monitored all calls, in and out. He turned white and asked, "You mean that everything I have dialed on this phone is on paper?" "Yes, it is." "I dialed some very private numbers and I would like to see those records destroyed." "No way." This fellow is still miffed. Well, what about it? Does anyone have the right to know what numbers are dialed on his phone (including local)? What about big companies who run SMDR, and a guest uses the phone in the lobby -- leaving a trail of his calling card and what have you on the SMDR? Should I have a sign in my living room that says, "All numbers dialed on this phone are recorded"? John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !