Privacy
What implications does ENUM have for your privacy? A reasonable question. After all, you can choose whom you give your mobile number or e-mail address to. With ENUM, the situation is very similar. For example, it is possible for people to use your phone number to send you e-mail only if you have chosen that option. No links will be made between your phone number and your e-mail address or other contact details unless you ask for them.
It is partly because protecting privacy is such a high priority that management of the ENUM system has been placed in the hands of an independent organisation, ENUM NL. This body is responsible for laying down the regulations governing privacy and other matters, and for making sure that registrars and other market players stick to the rules.