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National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations

Posted by michael on from the ring-ring dept.

prockcore writes "The National Do Not Call Registry is up and running. Sign up so most telemarketers cannot call you starting October 1st. There are exemptions though, like for charities and political organizations." Note that many of the states which have opened their own registries will be sharing that data with the national list, so you may not have to re-register - check and see what your state is doing.

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  1. Needs email address to register... by sdo1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm not particularly pleased that the US government now has a growing database tying email addresses to phone numbers.

    (for those that didn't bother to read it, they require a valid email address to register your phone number online)

    I guess I'll be creating a throw-away yahoo or hotmail address for this...

    -S

    --
    --- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
  2. If charities are exempt by pulse2600 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't wait to see companies buying time on charity organization's phone calls. Imagine this:

    1) Company makes donation to charity
    2) Charity promises to advertise company during charity's fund raising calls
    3) Company claims donation on their taxes
    4) ????
    5) Profit!!! (or in the case of the charity: Non-Profit!!!!!)