My Own Pirate Radio

A nation-wide list is long overdue. From the CBC:

Canada’s phone regulator is seeking public input for a national “do-not-call” list that would prevent telemarketers from contacting people who don’t want unsolicited sales pitches. The CRTC is about to draft rules for the list.
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The Canadian Marketing Association, which represents 800 telemarketers, offers a voluntary “do-not-contact” service. Consumers register with the service to have their names removed from marketing lists held by members of the marketing association. The association says this will reduce the number of telemarketing offers that people receive by phone, mail or fax. More than 340,000 Canadians are registered with the CMA service.

The United States has had a National Do Not Call Registry since June 2003. More than 110 million phone numbers are registered.

I wonder how much mobile phone popularity and the advent of VOIP will change telemarketing capabilities and behavior. Those new channels need privacy protection (”attention protection”) too. I received my first SMS spam message recently.