It doesn’t look like it was a lobbying thing. More a pro privacy thing. A ton of Californians had unlisted numbers and didn’t want to be revealed, or victims could be tracked by their abusers through caller ID, and privacy advocates said that people shouldn’t have their number public without their consent.
but they couldn’t figure out how to regulate it properly, so the issue was eventually dropped.
those are fun to read, cool.
I genuinely cannot remember or understand why this was a debate. How much money were call centers throwing at politicians?
It doesn’t look like it was a lobbying thing. More a pro privacy thing. A ton of Californians had unlisted numbers and didn’t want to be revealed, or victims could be tracked by their abusers through caller ID, and privacy advocates said that people shouldn’t have their number public without their consent.
but they couldn’t figure out how to regulate it properly, so the issue was eventually dropped.