Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller ID Question Message-ID: <2228@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 16 Dec 89 18:57:22 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 579, message 4 of 8 Bernie Cosell writes: > Won't that be good --- a nice, nation-wide electronically-tracked > database of *everyone* who wants to __USE__ a phone. > [...] > There are MUCH easier ways [IMHO] to effect some > kind of effective screening of your incoming calls [probably better > than CID could ever dream to be unless the CID-likers get their > apparent wish and we go to a fully-electronically-tracked society]. Bad news, Bernie. The tracking has long been in place and will be made much more sophisticated in the years to come regardless of the Chicken Little rantings of the Preserve our Privacy crowd. The question before us is not whether this network should be created and put into place, but rather if some of the information traveling on that network should be made available to you and me. Obviously you think it shouldn't; only the "big boys" should have it. I disagree. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !