New Telemarketing Laws for the New Year

SuperRob writes "Ars Technica posted a story called "Laws that Don't Suck", outlining the new Telemarketing laws enacted or amended for 2001. Be sure to find out what your rights are, if Telemarketers piss you off as much as they piss off me."

Hmmmmmm this is bothersome

[Travoltus]

These so-called "do not call" lists are just more means of registering people.
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63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,

Not much here.

[www.sorehands.com]

The new laws don't add much.

What would add much is:

• A requirement for valid caller id information. So they can be rejected.
• A requirement for the telemarketer to give a home phone number for themselves.So, you can call them when they are having dinner, in the shower, etc.

Re:Not much here.

[radja]

AND the home phone number of both the CEO of the telemarketing company and the company the marketing is for. Also a requirement that they answer any and all incoming calls, including collect call.

//rdj

antitelemarketer.com

[HiNote]

In the spirit of anti-telemarketing, I'd like to point you all to www.antitelemarketer.com [antitelemarketer.com]

Automated Dialers

[sqlrob]

OK, I'm confused.

Kansas and Maine put restrictions on automated dialing recorded message devices.

I thought these were already banned under the TCPA?

Requiring Caller ID from Telemarkers

[meldroc]

While we're on this subject, here are some more ideas.

• All telemarketers must provide Caller ID information naming the company calling. Big fines if this doesn't happen.
• The phone company practice of playing both sides against the middle needs to stop. If the phone company offers a service such as anonymous call rejection, they are not allowed to provide telemarketers a way to get around it. Ideally, they should keep a list of known telemarketers and provide automatic rejection based on that list.
• The telemarketers' wardialers need to be stopped. They are responsible for the vast majority of hang-up phone calls I receive. They should not be allowed to place a call unless a human being is ready to take that call when the victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomer picks up.