June 4, 2008

Private Phone Number Listings are a windfall for Telephone Companies.

Privacy Doesn't Exist Anymore - The Expert On Everything - A Novel by Edward David Gil

Described as “Catch-22” meets “Three Days of the Condor,” this techno-thriller with an attitude focuses on realistic technological details and takes the reader on a journey into an uncomfortable future that could easily become a reality.

OVERVIEW

Young Charlie Sanders is offered a six-figure job after only thirty seconds into an interview at Vector Systems, is mistakenly handed the company’s only prototype of a technology that can definitively erase any and all privacy in our society (code-named “Wallace”, It fits like a snug hearing aid and can maintain a conversation), is pursued like prey by more than a few interested parties – including a Governor with presidential ambitions and quite a few U.S. Senators – and begins receiving death-threats from the technology itself, which now has its own ideas.

Privacy Issues In The News

David Lazarus: Consumer Confidential in an article titled  'Why your privacy still comes at a cost' which you can find in June 3rd's posting, hits it on the head in regards to Corporate greed. He talks about how the California Legislature caved into pressure from the the Telephone Company in regards to a Bill to make it free to have your landline phone number private. This has been the case with cell phones.

I love how he points out that it is really a lot work to make sure that number does not creep back into the directory. So much work that some Telephone Companies have to charge $1.50 a month to keep the number from being listed. We have really lost our way when these companies can tax us without representation.

Richard Mathiason

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