Google is not a telco and therefore should not have any of the
privileges of a telco. A telco cannot resell your phone call history.
Your phone call history requires a court order to get access to. I
think Google is just being Russian: belligerently doing what they
damn-well want to until congress makes a specific law against such
activity. Tapping phone-lines is illegal without a court order, I'm not
sure if that law was updated to include wireless cell calls. Anyway,
wanting to know if that last call was to a business is crossing some
serious privacy red-lines that should exist.
On 3/11/22 22:31, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
Umm..... hasn't pretty much every phone company, and particularly
cell phone companies, been doing this for years? The private
enterprise keeping records part that is.
This seems more like an attempt by Google to verify business phone
numbers, possibly to help improve caller ID and search. I suspect
this is more of a situation where they look up the number you just
called and if it matches a business number they need to verify is
correct they prompt you.
In other words, it's croudsourcing data, not building a database to
track who you've been calling. Not saying they aren't doing the
latter as well for some percieved business purpose as they very well
could be doing that as well.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 7:42 PM Jan-GAMs <j.vank...@grnacres.net> wrote:
Google just searched your phone and made a record that you called
a business, a specific business. The fact that they knew it was a
business must imply they know the other phones you called earlier
were not businesses. This doesn't bother you that a private
enterprise is keeping records on who you call without a court order?
I feel this crosses a line into privacy invasion. Just because you
can do it, doesn't mean you should.
On 3/11/22 18:24, Mike Hammett wrote:
I see it.
It seems like a reasonable step to shore up data quality.
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*Subject: *[AFMUG] Did you just call a business?
How many of you get that message after dialing a business on your
android?
When I see that message I feel violated. How about you?
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