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FCC Allows Bells to Sell Your Telephone Usage Data
Devistater writes "Spotted on hardocp. The FCC said in a ruling yesterday that telephone companies can sell your name, who you call, and for how long you talk to anyone who is an "affiliate." No longer is this required to be an opt in marketing approach, now its OPT OUT. Sounds like spam is coming to the telephone world, and what an egregious breach of privacy. Article on PCWorld has some of the details." There's also a short Reuters story and a good one on ecommercetimes.com.
Fool. Use an alternate service... Satalite phones, something... anything for crying out loud. You people may think I was trolling. But bupkiss to you. I mean it. If I don't want to support something, I stop supporting it. Geesh. Go out there... Start making waves with people who are like-minded... get some cash, and start a business to fight those you don't want to support! Get out there, lay lines. Hell, don't like the govm't handling the roads? Start a privitization coalition. Get out there and raise money and pay someone else to pave the roads. It can be done. You don't have to rely on the govm't to take care of you. You should take that responsibility on yourself.
Bullshit -- there are still alternatives to landlines (which are all this applies to). VoIP services like Vonage, cell phone providers, simply not having a phone (the last of those being my present choice... someone wants to communicate, they can use email, damnit! urgent? needs to be voice? well, there's a phone in my office for that, when I'm there and not too busy to answer it).
Nobody's forcing you to buy landline service.