That is debatable. They are an MVNO with Google Fi, and they also
provide VoIP with Google Voice.
They may not be a "telco" in the strictest definition, but they are most certainly a telco service provider. Not a huge leap from one to the other.
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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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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2022 8:22:41 PM
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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