Comments on: Canadian ‘Do Not Call’ starts in September

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:28:44 +0000

Unplugging a phone, does not unplug the internet.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:49:32 +0000

“There is a really easy way to take care of people that you don’t want to call you.
It’s called, turn off the phone. It’s 100% effective”

How are u gonna do that when u need it for the internet?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:45:33 +0000

“Very nice of you to provide these other users with your phone number in an easy to gather,
one stop shopping list of numbers”

We have it in Australia also and numbers are not used for information gathering, as they’re already publicly available.
It greatly reduces telemarketting calls, but I still get them from recorded message “services”, who can be fined heavily if
identifiable. They always start with “congratulations, you’ve won a trip to …” etc. Obviously you haven’t won anything, but
after supplying them with your credit card details and other personal info, they’d inform you that your name will go into
a draw. Then they disclose and sell your info to other scammers/spammers.

They used to claim people had won a mobile phone, playstation, ringtone or whatever else they thought popular.

By: deitarion/SSokolow

deitarion/SSokolow — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:06:01 +0000

I’ve been meaning to set my computer up as an Asterisk PBX and preventing telemarketing is one reason. (Using my computer as a speakerphone that actually works is the other main one)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:39:03 +0000

Very nice of you to provide these other users with your phone number in an easy to gather, one stop shopping list of numbers.

There is a really easy way to take care of people that you don’t want to call you. It’s called, turn off the phone. It’s 100% effective and is a sure fire way to deal with this without releasing any privacy information.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:11:38 +0000

Re ^

Yes i’ve heard they’ll use any excuse to fit under “business customer”.

By: bah

bah — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:45:21 +0000

Yeah, we’ve got that here in the US. I still get calls all the time. The only way not to get called by people pushing something on you(agenda, charity guilt, products) over the phone is to get rid of your telephone.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:39:50 +0000

“It should be rather the other way: who WON’T be exempt?”

that would be a big list. perhaps you could put it bellow? its much esia to maintain short lists than long ones. 6 lines apposed to every company in Canada – whats described in those 6 lines.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:40:43 +0000

Exempt will be:
» registered charities
» political parties
» nomination contestants, leadership contestants or candidates of a political party
» opinion polling firms or market research firms conducting surveys when the call doesn’t involve the sale of a product or service
» general circulation newspapers calling to sell a subscription to someone with an existing business relationship with the organization
» to business consumers

It should be rather the other way: who WON’T be exempt?

But no fear, there is a wonderful site by Michael Geist, called iOptOut.ca

There, you can opt-out of solicitation by entities who are exempt.