Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: lotus!bobf@uunet.uu.net (Bob Frankston) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Calling Party ID Message-ID: Date: 13 Mar 89 13:19:39 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 87, message 6 of 7 I'm shocked to see the overreaction to a very reasonable concern about privacy issues associated with the calling party ID feature. In fact, it IS a serious invasion of privacy. The same thinking would ban unlisted numbers since why would anyone but a criminal want an unlisted number? In any case, it would be fairly simple to allow the caller to suppress this feature automatically or selectively. The telco would still have the information in case the call must be traced under appropriate (a loosely defined word) authority. In school back in the 50's (remember them?) we had to write letters to various embassies to get information. We were warned that if we wrote to a socialist embassy the post office would record our names and addresses. Good thing they were inefficient. Somewhere, in some basement is my name and address. Full name: Bob Frankston