At 15:05 1/4/96, Bill Frantz wrote:
Caller ID could tell them where you are calling from. They can also use their billing information and user profile information to decide where you live and/or how old you are. I wonder if any of these filters will keep the German prosecutors off their necks, given that they can be bypassed.
I don't know whether or not one can presume the existence of Caller ID over in Germany. When I lived there (albeit several years ago), it was a frustrating mixture of old technology (no records of any calls, just a counter that registered message units, so one could get a monster phone bill, and not even contest it) and new (ISDN and the German Post's version of BTX, Bildschirmtext).
I feel sorry for them given the situation they are in, and want to kick their butts for just rolling over dead instead of fighting for free access.
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