In this example, the called party is a subscriber who has subscribed to the privacy screening service. (The called party will also be referred to as the ???subscriber???, as well as the ???called party??? herein) FIG. 1 also shows a Signaling Transfer Point (STP) 106 which services a Service Control Point (SCP) 107 and a third SSP (SSP 108) which services a Service Node (SN) 109.