Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller-ID Segment on ATC Message-ID: <2506@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 Dec 89 06:24:57 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 28 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 603, message 4 of 8 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes: > Why should I have to spend extra money/time/hair :-) to maintain my > privacy? People should have to do something special to give up their > privacy, not to keep it. And where is this pearl cast in stone? Space forbids listing the legion of encroachments on your privacy that come up every day, that you must make an effort to thwart. But let's put it this way: if the majority of the people either aren't as paranoid as you about this particular privacy matter and/or they wish to avail themselves of this technology that you consider threatening, then it is you, my friend, that will have to bear the expense and go to the trouble to protect your minority interest. If most people don't care if their numbers are known to their callees, isn't it fair that those few who do care would have to be the ones to exert special effort. Remember, Caller-ID doesn't place your number on billboards all over town, just on some displays of *people you, yourself voluntarily call*. You still have to make the call for someone to get your number. How many people do you bother that you don't want bothering you in return? John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !