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Tuesday, September 15, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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N.J. Bell may use new service
Opponents say call identification system violates privacy
The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. — A service that would tell New Jersey Bell customers who was calling before they answered the telephone represents an invasion of privacy that also could reduce calls to emergency hot lines that rely on anonymous tips, opponents told a regulatory panel yesterday.
The state Board of Public Utilities is considering the proposed Call Identification service, described by New Jersey Bell as a way for customers to "see who is at the door before opening it."
Although opposed by New Jersey's public advocate and American Civil Liberties Union chapter, the service has the support of law enforcement officials who see it as a way to thwart obscene callers, reduce sales solicitation calls and assist in the tracing of numbers during emergencies.
Call Identification, which New Jersey Bell said is offered only in Orlando, Fla., displays the telephone numbers of incoming calls on a small screen hooked to the phone. The system also allows the service and six other features in Atlantic City and the New York suburbs of Hudson County.
Raymond Makul, director of the public advocate's Division of Rate Counsel, told the utilities board that
the benefits of Call Identification did not exceed the related potential for public harm.
Approval of the service would mean that "we are being looked out for by our Big Brother. Big Brother Bell." Makul said.
Edward Martone, executive director of the ACLU in New Jersey, said in a letter presented to the utilities board:
"Call Identification must be seen as a new toy for the over-zealous bureaucrat, the over-ambitious salesperson and over-inquisitive
Opponents said the service would violate the agreement between New Jersey Bell and customers who paid extra for unpublished numbers. Martone aid he would consider filing a class-action suit on the customers' behalf.
Those opposed also said people giving anonymous tips or getting information from referral hot lines unwittingly reveal their identities.
For example, Makul said, customers might be reluctant to participate in New Jersey's tax amnesty program or get birth control information if they thought confidentiality was not assured.
James Louis, the state's deputy public defender and director of a
program that handles child abuse and neglect cases in family court, said the service would have a chilling effect on child abuse reports.
But the superintendent of the state police, Col. Clinton A. Pagano, said he saw Call Identification as a welcome relief.
The utilities board could rule within a week on New Jersey Bell's request for a two-year test. The telephone company conducted a sixth-month experiment at an Atlantic City casino hotel.
the City casino hotel.
If the board grants the trial period, opponents can either supply the board with new information against the project and ask the board to reconsider or appeal the decision to the appellate division of the state Superior Court.
Proposed rates for Call Identification are $6.50 per month for residential customers and $8.50 per month for businesses. The company hopes to offer Call Identification and the other services to customers across the state by 1989.
The other services would allow subscribers, for a fee, to block calls from certain numbers, retain the last number from which a call was dialed, repeatedly dial numbers, use tones to distinguish callers, give priority to forwarded calls and allow tracing of the last call received.
Sting on child porn successful
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — More than 100 people are under indictment for indulging in child pornography, the Justice Department announced yesterday. Two nationwide government sting operations netted the accused when they answered advertisements that offered material containing graphic depictions of child sex.
graph or negatives showing minors involved in sexually explicit conduct.
In the operation, dubbed Project Looking Glass, postal inspectors sent letters advertising child cloat to people whose names had turned up on previously confiscated mailing lists of purchasers of such material.
Five Kansans were among those indicted in the operation, according to federal authorities. One of them, Harold D. Lamb, Mackville, was charged with nine counts of sending or receiving pornographic photo-
The other Kansans were each charged with one count of sending or receiving pornographic materials involving minors, authorities said. They are Barry A. Snyder and Dickie Bickley, 45, Newton a Wichita postal clerk; Kenneth G. Slowinsky, 32, Overland Park; and Thomas A. Thompson, 40, Salina.
Attorney General Edwin Meese III disclosed at a news conference that dozens of U.S. Postal Inspection Service investigators and Customs Service agents had been operating undercover as suppliers of kiddie porn at least since the beginning of the year.
Child pornography, Meesse said,
"affects all of us and victimizes those
most vulnerable, our children." He
said pornography could never be consented to by the children victimized by it, nor could porn be condoned by society.
Federal search warrants to recover the pornographic materials were issued following delivery. The material consisted mostly of magazines, videotapes and movies seized in earlier raids on porn traffickers.
"Project Looking Glass is intended as a strong message that the Postal Service will not tolerate the use of the mails as a vehicle to traffic in child pornography and perpetuate the sexual victimizing of our children," said Chief Postal Inspector Charles R. Clauson.
Clauson said that, in 35 instances during the investigation, suspects admitted to, or evidence was found of, sexual molestation of children.
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