LawMeme LawMeme Yale Law School  
LawMeme
Search LawMeme [ Advanced Search ]
 
 
 
 
Links: National Do Not Call Registry Opens Today
Posted by Steven Wu on Friday, June 27 @ 17:15:55 EDT Privacy
Register now to keep telemarketers away.

Unfortunately, the list of exceptions contains some of the most annoying telemarketers, including long-distance phone companies, airlines, banks and credit unions, political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors, or companies with which you have an existing business relationship. Also, the law only requires telemarketers to synchronize their databases with the national database every three months--meaning a long delay before you get those pesky callers off your back.

Still, this seems to help reduce the volume of calls, even if it may not do so as significantly as people may wish. Now we have to see if the law and the registry will survive the inevitable court challenge.

The New York Times has more here.

 
Related Links
· More about Privacy
· News by Steven Wu


Most read story about Privacy:
Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet

Options

 Printer Friendly Page  Printer Friendly Page

 Send to a Friend  Send to a Friend

Threshold
  
The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.

Leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, moriuntur
Human laws are born, live, and die

Contributors retain copyright interests in all stories, comments and submissions.
Everything else copyright (c) 2002 by the Information Society Project.

This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later.
The latest version is currently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/.

You can syndicate our news with backend.php

Page Generation: 0.175 Seconds