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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Caller ID problems
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.234843.17233@alphalpha.com>
Date: 31 Mar 91 23:48:43 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.043415.7314@odin.corp.sgi.com> <13945@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Mar30.230852.9730@menudo.uh.edu> <13948@helios.TAMU.EDU> <19139@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <19139@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>In article <13948@helios.TAMU.EDU> byron@archone.tamu.edu (Byron Rakitzis) writes:
>>I don't see how knowing the phone number of the incoming caller enables you
>>to determine his/her address, name, and "other personal information". The
>
>You've apparently never heard of a "Criss-Cross" directory when enables
>the user to convert phone numbers to names and street addresses.  These

This also gets used by phone salespeople to track down potential sales.
If Joe Blow just bought a swimming pool, chances are his neighbors can
afford it too.  I've also seen it used by what I believe was a skip tracer.
I got a call from someone in another state who was asking whether or not
a person by a certain name lived next door to me.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.