The privacy.conf file is used to
control the maximum number of tries a user has to enter his 10-digit
telephone number in the PrivacyManager() application. The PrivacyManager()
application determines if a Caller ID is set for the incoming call. The
user enters his 10-digit number within the number of tries configured in
privacy.conf, the application sets the
PRIVACYMGRSTATUS channel variable to either
SUCCESS or FAILED. If the Caller ID
is set, the application does nothing.
The PrivacyManager() application can also
accept the arguments in the dialplan. This allows the value to remain in
memory, instead of an I/O operation to the disk to read the
configuration file, which you would only worry about with high usage of
this application (many calls per second).