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Posted by Joseph Singer on June 26, 2008, 9:34 pm
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> Like spam, privacy in the electronic age is an arms race. The next
> step is to fashion an electronic butler that demands a password
> before it passes a call through to a human. You heard it here first.
While not the same thing exactly the service from Grand Central is a
screener. When you call a Grand Central number it answers with the
name of the party you have called. It then asks for your name which
you record after a beep tone. When the called party answers the
recording of who placed the call to you is played. You can decide to
answer it, have it disconnected or sent to voicemail.
The service was originally open to all, but after Google bought the
service it's only open via invitations, but I believe there's a web
page where you can request an invitation. It's sort of the same
situation while the service is in Beta it's by invitation only same as
Google's gmail email service.
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