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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Caller ID is a ripoff!
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 06:08:40 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Keywords: Caller ID Telephone
-
- Writes kucloak@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bryan Kennedy Reed), in response
- to a complaint about Caller ID posted by chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad
- Helfe
- nberger):
-
- > Just which amendment is being violated? I assume you are saying
- > it is a violation of the right to privacy which is a penubra right
- > derived from the first and fouth amendments. Just where does this
- > violation occur? The constitution does not give someone the right
- > to be stupid.
-
- It's a sorry time when all we can think of is whether the actions
- of the Telephone Companies in looking for added revenue must be
- either "constitutional" or "unconstitutional". Nor we are jurists
- here - we are not.
-
- It's a sorry time when basic social issues such as the right to
- privacy, a concept that even a child has no trouble accepting,
- understanding and using, must be justified by quoting chapter and
- verse of legal precedent.
-
- It's a sorry time when business enterprises are so easily allowed
- to resort to violating people's privacy in order to earn some
- additional moneys which they should have earned more cleanly by
- providing better or more efficient service, not by gouging clients.
-
- And it's a very sorry time indeed when the Public Utilities
- Commissions, supposedly organized to protect taxpayers by regulating
- the Telephone Companies, cater instead to the demands of those
- they are supposed to regulate!
-
-