Cell Telephone Anonymity versus Safety
Is privacy truly weighed against the public good? Government seems to do whatever they wish despite alleged privacy guarantees. And in all, the people haven't made too much of a stink about it. But what about private companies sharing personal info if there is a legitimate safety issue? What about a child's life being at stake? Is it really so cut and dry?
Despite what many unscrupulous web-based companies claim, there is no way to instantly lookup a cell phone number. There is no cellular number directory, or cell phone database. These things do not exist, and never have. Anyone selling access to such a thing, is therefore a thief. So how can people identify a mobile phone number? Is there any legitimate reason for them to do so?
To accomplish this, one would have to contract a cell phone lookup from a private investigative company. There are people with things to hide, be they criminals, unfaithful spouses, etc. But does that give the average person the right to look behind the curtain of cellular privacy?
Simply being curious, or wanting to check up on someone who gave you their number are not legitimate reasons to dig into a number. But there a lot of legitimate reasons. Scam artists use only cell phones, as do most criminals. Ebay con artists are famous for using cell phones with out of the area area codes.
It is easy to decide that cell phone information should be beyond access, but what if finding your own child required knowing about a particular cellular phone number? What if your child was abducted, or decided to meet some stranger they met online. Kids love to text and are obviously not as cautious as we parents would like. Imagine your child meeting someone from MySpace in real life. They are gone, and you have no idea where. The only clue you have is a stranger's cell phone number. You can have a cell phone search done on the number, or you can wait for the police to become concerned enough to act. And then you can wait some more as "policy" and "procedure" slow everything down to a snail's pace.
With your kid in danger, which solution would you choose: knowing their whereabouts immediately, or waiting a whole day, then letting the situation that is completely out of your hands unfold through a slow, bureaucratic process handled by people with no personal stake in the outcome?
It's really a no-brainer. Of course bad people can abuse the cell phone lookup, but this scenario illustrates that there are times to take the fast road, and that parents certainly have a right to know who their child is with.
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