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Writes kucloak@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bryan Kennedy Reed), in response
to a complaint about Caller ID posted by chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad 
Helfe
nberger):

> Just which amendment is being violated?  I assume you are saying 
> it is a violation of the right to privacy which is a penubra right 
> derived from the first and fouth amendments.  Just where does this 
> violation occur?  The constitution does not give someone the right 
> to be stupid.

It's a sorry time when all we can think of is whether the actions
of the Telephone Companies in looking for added revenue must be
either "constitutional" or "unconstitutional".  Nor we are jurists 
here - we are not.

It's a sorry time when basic social issues such as the right to 
privacy, a concept that even a child has no trouble accepting, 
understanding and using, must be justified by quoting chapter and 
verse of legal precedent.

It's a sorry time when business enterprises are so easily allowed 
to resort to violating people's privacy in order to earn some 
additional moneys which they should have earned more cleanly by 
providing better or more efficient service, not by gouging clients.

And it's a very sorry time indeed when the Public Utilities 
Commissions, supposedly organized to protect taxpayers by regulating 
the Telephone Companies, cater instead to the demands of those
they are supposed to regulate!