mk59200@metso.tut.fi (Kolkka Markku Olavi) (08/08/90)
In article <10575@accuvax.nwu.edu>, kgreer@mcnc.org (Ken Greer) writes: |> Privacy ?? I'm confused. You mean that in France I can |> "non-invade" someone's privacy by calling him, but "invade" his |> privacy by knowing his phone # (which I would know, since I had called |> him) ? The basic idea is to protect _your_ privacy by not showing to someone else where you have called. If the nubers are shown on the bill, that means that they are stored somewhere, and someone can go through them to see if you have made any 'suspicious' calls. Don't you consider this an invasion of your privacy? |> Seriously, how would anyone contest a wrongly charged call ? The area code and time of call are sufficient for this purpose. Additionally a few digits of the number are shown to remind _you_ of the final destination of the call. Markku Kolkka mk59200@tut.fi
kgreer@mcnc.org (Ken Greer) (08/13/90)
In article <10649@accuvax.nwu.edu> Kolkka Markku Olavi <mk59200@metso. tut.fi> writes: >|> Privacy ?? I'm confused. You mean that in France I can >|> "non-invade" someone's privacy by calling him, but "invade" his >|> privacy by knowing his phone # (which I would know, since I had called >|> him) ? >The basic idea is to protect _your_ privacy by not showing to someone >else where you have called. If the nubers are shown on the bill, that >means that they are stored somewhere, and someone can go through them >to see if you have made any 'suspicious' calls. Don't you consider >this an invasion of your privacy? Excuse me, but I thought the discussion was about the printing of the numbers that I call, printed on _my_ phone bill ... which means that they would come to _me_ and then I could choose who or who not to show them to. So why store any part of the number ?? A lot of good it is to me to tell me I called someone (out of > five million in NC, say). >Don't you consider this an invasion of your privacy? Not unless the phone company decided to market this info, which so far, I have not heard any concrete evidence of. While we're on the subject, companies have known for a long time that even the exchange you live in tells a lot (well, a least some) about the person. Affluent neighborhoods will be targeted much more for some marketing ploys than will be a ghetto neighborhood. Kim L. Greer try: klg@orion.mc.duke.edu Duke University Medical Center kgreer@mcnc.org Div. Nuclear Medicine POB 3949 klg@dukeac.ac.duke.edu Durham, NC 27710 919-660-2711x5223 fax: 919-681-5636