[asterisk-biz] A DID question

[Matthew Rubenstein]

	Of course - that's why I'm asking this community, with its experience
and vested interests in safely operating such business, for known
examples of this (increasingly) common scenario being tested in court. I
don't need to trust a nonlawyer to follow a link to a published story of
such a case.

	No one has offered such advice, so this risk remains unqualified. But
thanks for the other insights you've offered, which are worth asking a
lawyer, to keep their cost down :). And which might help people reading
this thread to avoid producing an exploitable system that bugs a lot of
people and makes all our endeavors less welcome.

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."
- from "Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow" by Dave Grusin & M Ames (theme
song from "Baretta")


On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:46 -0700, trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 16:21 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > 	I'm not sure you understand me. I'm talking about the person supposedly
> > opting their own phone# in, who claims authority to do so. Not the
> > person operating the service, who's generating and storing business
> > records. How does the *opted-in callee* demonstrate their authority for
> > registering a given phone#, other than claiming they have that authority
> > in a Web form or email? Do they have to fax letterhead or something
> > nonscaleable like that? Has this process been tested in any court? It
> > really does sound like I'm volunteering to be the guinea pig, which is
> > not my usual line of work.
> 
> there is no proof required for that, afaik but that is a lawyer
> question.  You should run the data collection policies by the lawyer and
> make sure they are legal as well as the actions of calling, not all
> states are equal and you dont want to have problems in the future.
> 
> Remember its never a good thing to trust some random person off the net
> with legal advice, what if they give you bad advice?  You really cant go
> after them and you would still be the one in trouble.
> 
> 
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(C) Matthew Rubenstein