National Do Not Call Registry FAQs
consumer.ftc.gov
Advice to help you stop unwanted calls, and information about the National Do Not Call Registry.

Is it worth registering my number with the federal government (which presumably already has access to my information) to avoid spam calls? Does it work? Is there a downside?

  • doodlebob@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Political campaign-related autodialed or prerecorded voice calls, including autodialed live calls, autodialed texts, and prerecorded voice messages, are prohibited to cell phones, pagers, or other mobile devices without the called party’s prior express consent

    Most companies/political callers don’t do regular manual calling anymore… They pretty much all use some sort of system to automatically dial numbers

    • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      I’m aware. Several issues there.

      1. They use / buy lists of people to robo-dial
      2. They don’t bother opt-out request handling on those lists reliably
      3. The opt-out process is per-campaign, not party-wide, so the process is an endless cycle for all party candidates, and even the same ones running in future elections. Because we have no way to our out at the party level, the data is basically always there.

      This is by no means am exhaustive list.

      • doodlebob@lemmy.world
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Yup, you’ve hit it on the head The worst is when they don’t handle consent withdrawal properly…