[6808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thanks to all--medical emergency under control
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Tue Jan 7 10:03:17 1997
From: jon@branch.net (Jon Zeeff)
To: web@typo.org (Wayne Bouchard)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:58:20 -0500 (EST)
Cc: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701070317.UAA18675@typo.org> from "Wayne Bouchard" at Jan 6, 97 08:17:39 pm
I'd like to point out that such things can be an invasion of privacy.
While person A might claim that person B threatened to commit suicide,
it is possible that person A wants to locate person B for other,
not so good reasons.
This will happen if all one has to say is "suicide" and everyone will
ignore their normal privacy policies.
> > > Thanks to everyone who responded. I was eventually able to reach one of
> > > the providers, who was able to identify the callers through logs, and
> > > passed the information to the local emergency people. The patient is now
> > > under treatment, and did not take a lethal dose.
> > I'd just like to point out the similarity between this event and the use
> > of the phone company to track down suicide callers. This reminds me of
