Is our privacy protected by the telcos?

Ang alam ko booming business yan sale ng private info. In bulk. Especially to businesses engaged in telemarketing.

im not surprised.

Thanks a lot for that info Yuga! Its like the movie enemy of the state – Will Smith, kaya lang kung ganun d2 sa atin parang okay2x na private infos natin! LOL

back in 2001 i worked at the seattle, washington headquarters of AT&T Wireless. While there, not only did i know how to triangulate where a person was based on their cell signal – but i could also use any phone and triangulate the nearest cell tower (i forgot how to do this already haha). triangulation is just simple mathematics. this was before gps on phones.. we just used the cell signal.

also, i know that the customer service side of AT&T obviously had access to all account information. so really, the only thing stopping someone from sharing info would be a mere confidentiality agreement. i know people that looked up addresses for celebrities in the states. however, quality control department is always monitoring actions and calls of their employees… if you look up a file that had nothing to do with your call, you would hear about it if they caught you. while i didnt work in the call center, i heard stories from other workers.. i wonder if the telcos here have strong quality control departments to regulate private information flow.

this is really a serious issue indeed, remind me of the motion film –> “enemy of state” , it’s too horrible for normal people like us. But advanced hackers can do something similar, breaking the computer remotely.