jean@hrcca.att.com (Nancy J Airey) (03/20/91)
In a recent class I had two students relate a story to me which I suspect may be an "Urban Legend." The story goes that a woman in Florida with "caller ID" on her phone was receiving obscene phone calls. She reported the phone number to the police and the caller was charged. The caller sued her for invasion of privacy and won. Is this "Urban legend" or fact? Can anyone *document* date/time/place/*court record*? (I put the "UL" flag on it because I felt that a definite court case would have been frequently cited by those arguing on both sides of the ICLID issue.) att!hrcca!jean [Moderator's Note: This wouldn't surprise me at all, given the climate in the criminal justice system in America today. But maybe some researchers among us have more details. PAT]
Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu> (03/20/91)
In article <telecom11.219.3@eecs.nwu.edu> jean@hrcca.att.com (Nancy J Airey) writes: > The story goes that a woman in Florida with "caller ID" on her phone > was receiving obscene phone calls. She reported the phone number to > the police and the caller was charged. > The caller sued her for invasion of privacy and won. Are there any jurisdictions where the time between filing a suit and having it heard is shorter than the time caller ID has been in effect? Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
William.Degnan@f39.n382.z1.fidonet.org (William Degnan) (03/24/91)
From: jean@hrcca.att.com > The story goes that a woman in Florida with "caller ID" on her > phone was receiving obscene phone calls. She reported the phone > number to the police and the caller was charged. Well, it is unlikely it was Florida. I don't believe it has been implemented there. I suspect we would have heard about it (if true) before you could have heard about it in class. Disclaimer: Contents do not constitute "advice" unless we are on the clock. William Degnan | Communications Network Solutions | !wdegnan@at&tmail.com -Independent Consultants | William.Degnan@telemail.com in Telecommunications | UUCP: ...!natinst!tqc!39!William.Degnan P.O. Drawer 9530 | ARPA: William.Degnan@f39.n382.z1.FidoNet.Org Austin, TX 78766-9530 | Voice +1 512 323 9383
ruck@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John Ruckstuhl) (03/24/91)
In article <telecom11.219.3@eecs.nwu.edu> jean@hrcca.att.com (Nancy J Airey) writes: > The story goes that a woman in Florida with "caller ID" on her phone > was receiving obscene phone calls. She reported the phone number to > the police and the caller was charged. > The caller sued her for invasion of privacy and won. Probably not in Florida -- a Southern Bell Customer Service person told me that CallerID wasn't available in Florida (yet) because of current state laws. An easy way to disprove the story is to verify my information (left as an exercise to the reader -- I don't know who to ask for *guaranteed* accurate information, but I'm sure some of you do. :) Best Regards, John R Ruckstuhl, Jr ruck@alpha.ee.ufl.edu Dept of Electrical Engineering ruck@cis.ufl.edu, uflorida!ruck University of Florida ruck%sphere@cis.ufl.edu, sphere!ruck
john@uunet.uu.net (John Temples) (03/25/91)
In article <telecom11.233.4@eecs.nwu.edu> ruck@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John Ruckstuhl) writes: > In article <telecom11.219.3@eecs.nwu.edu> jean@hrcca.att.com (Nancy > J Airey) writes: >> The story goes that a woman in Florida with "caller ID" on her phone > Probably not in Florida -- a Southern Bell Customer Service person > told me that CallerID wasn't available in Florida Caller*ID was available to a limited number of people for a few months here in Orlando three or four years ago. I think they were just doing a market test at the time. I know someone who had it, and I saw it in action, so this isn't just hearsay. I don't know about the rest of the state. John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)
bill@uunet.uu.net (Bill Vermillion) (03/25/91)
In article <telecom11.233.4@eecs.nwu.edu> ruck@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John Ruckstuhl) writes: > In article <telecom11.219.3@eecs.nwu.edu> jean@hrcca.att.com (Nancy J > Airey) writes: >> The story goes that a woman in Florida with "caller ID" on her phone >> was receiving obscene phone calls. She reported the phone number to >> the police and the caller was charged. >> The caller sued her for invasion of privacy and won. > Probably not in Florida -- a Southern Bell Customer Service person > told me that CallerID wasn't available in Florida (yet) because of > current state laws. An easy way to disprove the story is to verify my > information (left as an exercise to the reader -- I don't know who to > ask for *guaranteed* accurate information, but I'm sure some of you do. :) However Call Tracing has been available in Southern Bell switches in metro Orlando for several years, and United makes it available on April 1. Call Tracing stores the callers number at the phone company and they will turn that number over to the police (or other law enforcement agencies) for proscecution if the called person wants that done. The number will not be given the the called person. United is also implelementing for the first time in this area call-back, call-block and a couple of other minor things. Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP
FVEST@ducvax.auburn.edu (Floyd Vest) (03/26/91)
[23 Mar 91 21:16:42 GMT] William.Degnan@f39.n382.z1.fidonet.org (William Degnan) wrote: > From: jean@hrcca.att.com >> The story goes that a woman in Florida with "caller ID" on her > Well, it is unlikely it was Florida. I don't believe it has been > implemented there. The South Central Bell {Bell Notes} (phone bill newsletter insert) reported about three or four years ago that "entended custom calling" [read CLASS] services were being test marketed in a "central Florida" community. About a year-and-a-half ago they also reported that residential ISDN (they didn't call it that) was being test marketed a "central Florida" community. Why can't they test market thing like that here? Anyone know where this community is and what's being test marketed now? Floyd Vest <fvest@ducvax.auburn.edu> <fvest@auducvax.bitnet> Manager, Administrative Systems--Auburn University, Alabama USA Voice: +1 205 844 4512 BBS: +1 205 745 3989 FIDO: 1:3613/3
TONY@mcgill1.bitnet (Tony Harminc) (03/29/91)
In TELECOM Digest V#11 Issue 244 Floyd Vest writes: > [read CLASS] services were being test marketed in a "central Florida" > community. Anyone know where this community is and what's being test > marketed now? The residential ISDN trial was in Heathrow, Florida (not to be confused with the more famous airport of the same name).