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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,alt.security
- Subject: Re: Caller ID products?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:45:33 GMT
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- johnt@ee.ubc.ca (John Jay G. Tanlimco) writes:
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- >If you call someone, don't they have a right to know who you are? If you
- >insist on having privacy, use a public pay phone.
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- Why do they have that right? Why in the world do most countries have
- strict laws, and the telephone companies strict rules ablut tracing
- calls? The party certainly has the right to refuse to speak to you if
- you don't identify yourself, but more than that is an invasion of my
- privacy. I do not want to hand out my telephone number to any random
- person I phone.
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