I like this. Lots:
The Federal Trade Commission by the end of this month will begin taking requests from consumers who want their phone numbers made off-limits to telemarketers.
The federal plan is similar to programs in more than two dozen states where consumers can place their phone numbers on so-called do-not-call registries. Those programs appear to have effectively curbed some unwanted telephone solicitations.
Under the new federal rules, telemarketers who call phone numbers that have been listed on a nationwide do-not-call registry database will be subject, beginning on Oct. 1, to fines of up to $11,000 for each violation.
This concept has become more popular as technology has allowed companies to pitch their wares to millions of consumers over telephone, e-mail, and now even mobile phones.
I absolutely hate it when I get calls from telemarketers on my cell phone during peak hours. Just infuriates me.
MommaBear
Maybe the same idea could be made workable in regard to eMail spam, too!
Edmund Burke
Maybe this is one area (one of the few) where the EU is ahead of the USA. EU privacy legislation is aimed at protecting the individual, whilst in the US it appears to me to be aimed at protecting the rights of commercial bodies.