{"id":3127,"date":"2009-10-23T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2009-10-23T17:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:14:52","slug":"when-you-cant-block-your-phone-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/when-you-cant-block-your-phone-number\/","title":{"rendered":"When you can&#8217;t block your phone number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read in an article that came with my phone bill titled &#8220;Mandated Messages from the CPUC&#8221; the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>When you call 900 numbers or toll-free numbers such as 800 and 888<\/strong>, the company you&#8217;re calling may be able to receive and display your phone number by using an FCC-regulated technology called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automatic_number_identification\">Automatic Number Identification<\/a> (ANI). With ANI, <strong>there&#8217;s no way to prevent your number from being identified<\/strong> during these calls. You canoot block your number from being displayed as you can when you call other phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep your phone number private, use a company&#8217;s regular toll number instead of the toll-free number. Or, call from a payphone. If you do use a toll-free number or a 900 number, you can ask that your number not be given to phone solicitors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had always heard that there was some technology that made it so your phone number could not be blocked. Now we both know its extent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read in an article that came with my phone bill titled &#8220;Mandated Messages from the CPUC&#8221; the following: When you call 900 numbers or toll-free numbers such as 800 and 888, the company you&#8217;re calling may be able to receive and display your phone number by using an FCC-regulated technology called Automatic Number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}