Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 04:25:06 GMT From: "Marc T. Kaufman" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T Employee Makes Private Phone Records Public!! Message-ID: Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA 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 341, Message 3 of 9 Lines: 24 In article syd@dsi.com writes: > We all had to read and sign the operators non disclosure stuff, and it > definately handled cases like his. It was immediate grounds for > dismissal. It was spelled out in clear terms. Accessing records > without cause, disclosure of records of calling patterns to any third > parties, or disclosure of phone calls was not only against rules, it > was illegal and we could be procusuted, and a reference to the > appropriate statue for my state was stapled to the booklet. I understand this, and think it is proper, however ... how then can one of the LD carriers call me and say: "Mr. Kaufman, we have analyzed your long distance calling pattern -- and you can save $x by subscribing to our service". Surely, what's ok in one context must be ok in another. Maybe we just never knew that it was possible. I don't condone making this kind of information public, but I can't get outraged over it because I always expected it to happen. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)