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  1. March 20th, 2002, 11:41 PM #1
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    Heard of Opt-out? Here is Opt-In!

    I came across an interesting article today. A senator (Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn.) urged other Senators to cosign a letter to the FCC. In support of a new Opt-In privacy standard. From what I understood, this would, by default, do what Opt-Out does. So you would not have to call the phone company, and say that you Opt-Out. And want your information kept private.
    Under an opt-in standard, phone companies must obtain permission from customers before sharing or selling their CPNI data. Under an opt-out standard - the alternative to an opt-in approach - phone companies would be free to sell CPNI data unless they received a specific request from a customer to desist.
    You can read the article here: http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175307.html

    It is nice to see Senators trying to help privacy. Especially in this post-9.11 era.
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  2. March 20th, 2002, 11:48 PM #2
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    This is a really good idea.
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  3. March 21st, 2002, 12:11 AM #3
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    what party is he?
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  4. March 21st, 2002, 12:14 AM #4
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    It says in his post he is a Democrat from Minnesota, .
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  6. March 21st, 2002, 12:15 AM #5
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    The article says he is a Democrat...I think this is a fantastic idea. I get too many solicitation phone calls to count in a day, but if they cut out the phone companies ability to sell this info, it would cut down on A LOT of them. I don't know how they can really call it legal to sell that info anyway, but I know it is. It would be nice to see this bill pass.
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  7. March 21st, 2002, 12:46 AM #6
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    Yeah I hate solicitation calls, Spam is almost as bad, but solicitors seem to interupt you during dinner or some other bad time, just pisses me off.
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  8. March 21st, 2002, 01:01 AM #7
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    IMHO, this is the way it should've been from the beginning.
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  9. March 21st, 2002, 01:08 AM #8
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    While I trully agree this is the correct way and hope it passes...

    Me thinks I hear a lot of (phone company) ink drying on political donation checks... :-)
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