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Canada’s National-Do-Not-Call-List: “A travesty”
Remember back in September when the CRTC launched the anticipated National “Do Not Call List” (DNCL). Over 2.7 million Canadians registered within the first couple weeks. The mandate was supposed to stop telemarketers from bothering you once you officially register.
Well, the Consumers’ Association of Canada says the opposite is currently occurring, President Bruce Cran said “It’s a travesty. Here we have all these people thinking they were getting rid of incoming phone calls. Anyone who is registered should suspect their phone number is being broadcast to the four winds. The problem is that the CRTC sells the registry list online and specifically “in Toronto, you can get 600,000 names for $50″.
Great tax dollars well spent.
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I registered for the DNCL and soon after began getting robo-calls for a cruise-ship package that begin with an annoying horn and then “this is your captain speaking”. Those calls call from 000-000-0000, which of course indicates an attempt to hide the true origin of the call.
Our Minister of Communications has sold Canadian’s right to privacy to foreign criminals in return for $50. Nice work Mr. Clement.
Is this an indication of how the Harper government can be expected to act in other areas affecting Canadians’ right to privacy?
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what a complete cluster f***! i signed up as soon as the list became available and i have been getting more calls than before. the problem is that most telemarketers are now calling from blocked numbers so we cannot even report them and when you call the govt to complain they say there is nothing they can do without a phone number!
what they should have done is had a list of people that wanted to be called and sold that to marketing companies. i signed up in october and received a call from bell canada last week out of the blue. i have not dealt with them in any way for over 3 years so they have absolutey no right to call me. even the legit companies are using the do not call list to call people. this is totally unacceptable.
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Watch 16×9’s “List Loophole” which investigates the effectiveness (or lack there of) of the DNCL on HowardChui.com (http://www.howardchui.com/2009/01/26/list-loophole-2/)
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