>“Retrieving a telephone subscriber’s name and address for an investigation into an offence is an important tool," she said.
That was the reply from the spokeswoman and the article provides no accusations of any further "data interception" behavior.
If I didn't know better, I'd say this article is trying to characterize caller id/the phonebook as "intercepting data",
sure, it's technically accurate, but the words "caller id" are a lot less scary.
I remember a friend was up in arms a couple years ago about their phone number being exposed on Facebook. When I pointed out that's exactly what the phone book had done for decades, he suddenly didn't care much.
>“Retrieving a telephone subscriber’s name and address for an investigation into an offence is an important tool," she said.
That was the reply from the spokeswoman and the article provides no accusations of any further "data interception" behavior.
If I didn't know better, I'd say this article is trying to characterize caller id/the phonebook as "intercepting data", sure, it's technically accurate, but the words "caller id" are a lot less scary.