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Article: Cell-phone privacy should be priceless
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- June 2, 2004
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Telephone customers have come to enjoy the silence offered by the
federal Do Not Call Registry that prohibits random telemarketing
calls. No more interrupted dinners. No more pitches for dry
basements, replacement windows or discount insurance.
But now the telecommunications industry is poised to launch a new
assault on phone privacy - cell phone privacy. And this ploy not only
would annoy customers but extract money for the "service," whether
they allow it, or refuse it.
Fortunately, local U.S. Rep. Joseph R. Pitts quickly has proposed
legislation to stop mass cell-phone telemarketing, and his strategy
is winning nationwide approval.
The heart of the problem lies in the plan of a consortium ...