Federal law has barred telemarketers from using auto-dialers to call cell phones.
oh yea , thats really worked Spare me that joke..
Yep. If you have spyware on your PC, sometimes you'll get a bill for an outfit you never heard of. Your modem dialed into a dialer for a porno site, socking you with a sticker shock bill.
The feds are in the process of repealing that rule.
I dug out the link to the story. They published the reg so that the comment period would be over the holidays when most folkes were focused on other things. Here's the story from Thanksgiving weekend.
Do Not Call list may get loophole
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1289535/posts
"The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based privacy watchdog, says the change could result in the 64 million people enrolled in the list being bombarded by "answering-machine spam" and other unwanted voices on voice mail."
Read more at the link, or at the FTC website:
https://secure.commentworks.com/ftc-tsr/