Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 06 May 91 13:41:15 EDT From: John Stanley Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Employee Makes Private Phone Records Public!! Message-ID: Organization: Mad Scientist Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 337, Message 5 of 9 Lines: 50 kddlab!lkbreth.foretune.co.jp!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead) writes: > rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com writes: > > I'm asking Patrick to indulge me here as I tell you both what I found > > out regarding your telemarketing calls from 312-292-9000. I decided to > > dig deeper than Pat did (or deeper than he's able to, for that > > matter). Accessing the telemarketer's account, I learned much stuff. > > What I found out was quite interesting, so here goes ... > Err, is anyone else a little shocked that our good friend Randy > accessed someone's long distance phone records and aired them out in > the public view? Yes. I have been considering the effort it would take to review the Telecom Digest archives to locate the address of the AT&T Chairman of the Board or President or whomever it is. If I were the business in question, I would be talking to my lawyer right now. I KNOW that it would be a dark day on the sun before AT&T got any more of my (apparently high volume) traffic. While the passing of this information between LD carriers for use in marketing LD services might be arguably ethical, using one's position within AT&T to broadcast this stuff to the general public certainly is NOT. The fact that the company whose records were made public is a telemarketing scam is no defense. The information provided by Mr. Borow did not add any proof or disproof of the nature of their business, and as such, was completely immaterial to the discussion. If an AT&T employee feels free to publish long distance records for this company, what would make us think that he wouldn't do it for anyone else he took a dislike to? And if Mr. Borow does it, how many others? Gentlemen, Big Brother is watching, and it is NOT the government! [Moderator's Note: Thus far, no word (officially; I've received a confidential mailing) from AT&T or Randy on the state of affairs in Oak Brook today, but I'm told the situation is grim. Due to the backlog of Digests over the weekend, some people are just now getting around to reading the weekend issues; so we will see what tomorrow's mail brings on this subject. I hope Randy will at least reply. I can understand his possible embarassment, but hope he stays in touch with us. And a reply from AT&T would be appropriate also. PAT]