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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Phone privacy question.
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.050234.5982@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 30 Dec 90 05:02:34 GMT
References: <6550@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
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In article <6550@crash.cts.com> jonl@pro-smof.cts.com (Jon Lebkowsky) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP
>
>The phone company gives me a fairly complete phone list every year, for free.
>It's the phone book, of course, and if you're listed, you're liable to be
>keyed into somebody's list!
>
>(Realtors here in Austin will download specific neighborhoods from the
>Realcomp list, which is based on very-public tax records for the city. They'll
>look up the phone numbers and add 'em to the list, so that they have a
>complete database for any neighborhood they wish to devour.)


	Could someone take a scanner and scan the phone book into a computer
and then use some sort of OCR and then they can put that into a database. . .
Then if you call someone (and they have caller-ID) they will know your name
and address too?

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