Irrespective, you are free to use any data you collect on your customers.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2022 1:16 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Did you just call a business?
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.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>On 3/12/2022 11:36 AM, Jan-GAMs wrote:
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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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
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From: "Jan-GAMs" mailto:j.vank...@grnacres.net
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" mailto:af@af.afmug.com
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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