In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 14:48:14 on
Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Brenda Scourfield
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Think about it--if a child, ANYONE gives out his/her phone number, someone
>can actually now look it up to find out where he/she lives. The safety
>issues are obvious, and alarming.
About 15 years ago, when CD-ROMs were new, and went round at 1x not 48x,
an American company sent most of the USA's phone directories to the Far
East to be typed in. I still have a copy of the result (about a dozen
CDs). As well as being able to do an instant forward or reverse DQ on
anyone in the USA, it had features like you could look up the name and
phone number of the person next door (because it was indexed by address
as well as name or phone).
The suppliers claimed none of this infringed privacy, because the
information was in the public domain in the phone books. Although Europe
takes a different view. It seems that Google has just re-invented this
wheel. The CDs disappeared from the market after about a year.
Incidentally, the suppliers claimed that when demonstrating the CD at
trade fairs, the most common search done was for High School sweethearts
that people had lost contact with.
--
Roland Perry
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