Most of these are general privacy links, including such things as responses to GLBA "Privacy Notice" lettersThe Telemarketing Scum Page is being re-built. This website, started in 1996, had served its purpose well, but badly needs to be updated. The technology has changes, and some of the things that were considered rants in 1996 have either taken effect in the law or have resulted in telescum changing tactics (and losing business in the process).
So in updating this website, the original page is temporarily "Under Construction" as webpages used to say.
The GLBA is the "Graham Leach Bliley Act" (US). Together with miscellaneous other laws, the GLBA restricts how personal information can be used for marketing.
The UK took the later route and made compliance with the UK Corporate Telephone Preference Service mandatory. This apparently also applies to calls to businesses.
This law will become increasingly important as carriers must seek permission prior to delivering targeted advertisements, in part because of the requirement to display "unique view hits" or account data. If this law is enforced, such targeted advertisements may be used, but only if they are optional as part of a payment scheme.
In some cases, identification is required. Most of the ones that require identification do so for cheque cashing purposes, so it is likely they have a procedure for non-verified cards without check cashing privileges.
NOTE: Form 1500 describes "sexually oriented advertisements", but the US Supreme Court (Rowen v. USPS, 397 US 728 (1970)) stated this applies to all unwanted commercial mail. Regardless, the USPS never changed the wording of Form 1500, in order to discourage citizens from filing these Prohibitory Orders. The form may be submitted to a local post office manager or to the mail address listed on the form.
Pages on this site that describe techniques for suppressing data harvesting of personal data are blocked by a widely used search engine.
(This relates primarily to suppression of data harvesting. General privacy-related pages on this site are not being blocked. Apparently, the people who run that particular search engine don't like people to publicise such techniques for suppression of data harvesting.)
The pages blocked from search results comprise:
Try searching <site:skoozeme.com SMS> (without the angle brackets).As nearly as I can tell, other pages, unrelated to suppression of data harvesting pages, are rendered according to the usual search algorithms. As of now, pages with links to the suppression of data harvesting do not appear to be blocked from search results, so it is just the pages themselves that are excluded from search results.
site first posted November 3, 1996; reposted May, 1997.
This website can be found by searching for "The Telemarketing Scum
Page" on a search engine.
rev 30-Apr-2018 copyright 1996, 2018 S. Protigal