Telephone & Telecommunications
Privacy Resources

• Fact Sheets
   

• Speeches and Articles

Fact Sheets

• Fact Sheet 5a: Junk Faxes

• Fact Sheet 2: Wireless Communications: Voice and Data Privacy

• Fact Sheet 2(a): Hang Up on Harassment: Dealing with Cellular Phone Abuse

• Fact Sheet 2(b). When a Cell Phone Is More than a Phone: Protecting Your Privacy in the Age of the Super-Phone
  
  
• Fact Sheet 3: How to Put an End to Unwanted or Harassing Phone Calls
   
• Fact Sheet 5: Telemarketing: How to Have a Quiet Evening at Home
   
• Fact Sheet 7: Employee Monitoring: Is There Privacy in the Workplace?
   
• Fact Sheet 9: Wiretapping/Eavesdropping on Telephone Conversations: Is There Cause for Concern?
   
• Fact Sheet 19: Caller ID and My Privacy: What Do I Need to Know?

Speeches and Articles

• Prerecorded Telemarketing Calls: PRC's Comments to the FTC -- December 2006
  
  
• Alert: Your Cell Phone Can Continue Talking Even After You Get Rid of It -- September 2006
  
  
• Prohibit Debt Collectors from Calling Cell Phones: Comments to the FCC -- May 2006
  
• Keeping Phone Call Records Private: Comments to the FCC -- April 2006

• Protect Your Cell Phone Record -- January 2006

• Alert: Bogus Email Claims Cell Phone Numbers Will be Released to Telemarketers -- April 2005
  
  
• PRC Calls on the FTC to Protect Consumers from Prerecorded Telemarketing Calls - January 2005
  
  
• Alert Update: Take Action to Ensure Wireless 411 Directory will be Opt-In -- June 2004
  
  
• Alert Update: California Attorney General Files Against Mortgage Concepts for Telemarketing Violations -- January 2004
  
  
• Alert: PRC Calls for Wireless 411 Cell  Phone Number Directory to be Opt-In -- May 2003
   
• Alert: What Now for the National Do Not Call Registry?
  Updates on Legal Battles and Enforcement Actions Regarding the Do Not Call Registry - September 2003
   
• Comments to FCC on Federal "Do-Not-Call" List - December 2002
   
• Comments on California "Do Not Call" List - July 2002
   
• Caller ID: The Case For Consumer Education