So after a week of business, I'm back.
Given the new round of London bombings, and the ongoing Rove/Plame thing, and the nomination of a rich white guy for the Supreme Court, this story may be getting buried. As a public service to you, the reader, I'm hereby doing my thing to make it part of the public consciousness.
According to MSNBC, Telemarketing lobbies are working to weaken statewide Do Not Call lists via the FCC. They hope to get the FCC to claim sole jurisdiction over interstate calls, allowing them to circumvent more stringent laws in five states. (Florida, New Jersey, Indiana, Wisconsin, and North Dakota)
They're trying to push this through on the basis of allowing communications with people with whom they have "existing business relationships", which is a term so vague as to be exploitable beyond one's wildest dreams. Also, this potentially could open up the situation to allow for automated banks of recorded outgoing marketing calls.
The FCC is soliciting public feedback on this action, and I urge anyone who enjoys sitting at home without telemarketers calling to voice their opinions on this one.
The best part is how the companies complain that it's "difficult" for them to deal with a "patchwork" of state laws in soliciting new products to consumers. Not surprisingly, their solution is not to find new or better ways to enable that communications, but rather to open loopholes in popular statewide laws that allow them to circumvent the privacy protection currently afforded by the existing laws.
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