Privacy Basics and Opt-Out Strategies

Fact Sheet 1aPrivacy Basics and Opt-Out Strategies

Every day most of us give away information about ourselves -- sometimes knowingly and other times when we do not even realize it. You are your best privacy protector. This guide will teach you how to be aware, be assertive and be an advocate in protecting your personal information.  Learn to request your consumer reports, protect your financial privacy, safeguard your Social Security number, limit telemarketing calls and opt-out of unsolicited pre-approved credit card offers. 

How to Put an End to Unwanted or Harassing Phone Calls

Fact Sheet 3How to Put an End to Unwanted or Harassing Phone Calls

Telemarketing: How to Have a Quiet Evening at Home

Fact Sheet 5Telemarketing:
How to Have a Quiet Evening at Home

Frequently Asked Questions about Telemarketing

Fact Sheet 5bFrequently Asked Questions about Telemarketing

Sample Letter to the Federal Trade Commision: Oppose Pre-Recorded Telemarketing Calls

Sample Letter to the Federal Trade Commision: Oppose Pre-Recorded Telemarketing Calls

 

Prerecorded Telemarketing Calls: The Need for Industry Reform

VMBC petitioned the Commission to amend the TSR to allow prerecorded telemarketing calls to consumers when the caller has a claimed business relation. If accepted, an EBR exception for prerecorded sales calls would have created a major loophole, opening the door for a dramatic increase in unwanted calls to consumers who had placed their telephone numbers on the national Do-Not-Call (DNC) Registry.

Contact the FTC: Speak Out about Pre-Recorded Telemarketing Calls

Did you put your telephone number on the national Do-Not-Call Registry (DNC), but still get sales calls from companies you’ve never heard of? Quite likely many unwanted sales calls you get today are not made by a live person. Instead many companies use auto-dialers, programmed to start a recorded message the minute you answer the phone. But, the calls that probably really get your dander up are the “dead air” calls, when you run to catch the phone but are met with silence.

Bogus Email Claims Cell Phone Numbers Being Released to Marketers

Like so many emails these days you can't believe everything that comes into your inbox. A recent example of some of the half truths contained in well-intentioned emails includes the following which has been making the rounds on the Internet:

Comments to the Federal Trade Commission: Prerecorded Telemarketing Calls to Existing Business Customers (EBR)

For years intrusive, privacy invasive telemarketing calls have been a major source of consumer outrage.  Calls made by so-called “predictive” dialers -- automatic dialing that allows a telemarketer to call multiple households at one time -- have been a significant consumer complaint. Such calls are intrusive, invade the privacy of one’s home, and result in great annoyance when one races to answer the phone to find only dead air or a hang-up on the other end of the line. Predicative dialer calls are particularly troublesome and potentially dangerous for the elderly and the disabled.

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