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- From: cs291@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jonathan A. Rochkind)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
- Subject: caller id
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 23:40:14 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- More options for people is alwasy good. A prime purpose of
- technology is enablement. It follows, caller id is good. It has many useful
- things to offer, it is good, i do not believe it is unconstitutional. IF
- the counter service is also provided. You should be able to block caller id,
- at least with the temporary, each number you call *67 thing, but better giving
- people the option of permanently blocking caller id when calling from their number.
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- Privacy: true, someone calling your house can be an invasion of privacy, and you have theright to deny them the call with caller id. Also, since it is
- an invasion of privacy, you have the right to not give out yur telephone
- number if you so desire. Just because someone else gives you their
- tlephone number, it does not mean they have the right o yours. Just because
- you call soemoen does not mean they have the rght to see your number and call
- too.
-
- Sort of interesting anecdote: I was at someones house. There were only a few poeple
- there, and none of them had used the phone for a good hour and a hlaf. The
- phone rings, someone picks it up and hears "Who is this?". "I caught you, you
- ju;st prank called my house, it says so on the little caller id box."
- Ummm, okay.
-
- Also, they have caller id, and caller id blocking. Has anyone thought that next
- might come caller id blocking-blocking, to see someone's number even though they have blocked.? And then blocking-blocking-blocking? Perhaps each
- additional level of blocking will clost more money, so who ever has the
- most to spend on phone bills wins the id battle.
-
- -Me.
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- Everything here may or may not be my opinion, your opinion, or the opinion of the men from Sirius system. It may or may not be nutricional, and may or
- may not be dangerous.
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