The real issue is not with marketing calls themselves, as you say. It is
with people who deploy autodiallers to make calls to numbers before the
operator is free, and who have not tuned their systems correctly. It is
this that is already regulated (see the foot of the evening standard
article). Keeping on adding laws to our statute book does not provide
protection. Instead it provides chaos.
Ordinary cold calls are regulated under the UK Implementation of 2002/58/EC.
Even corporate phone numbers may now be entered into the TPS exclusion
dataset
I just want to remind us that no salaries can exist for anyone without
someone selling something to someone else, though. We are either paid
directly by sales or via taxation on those sales and those who make the
sales.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Turner
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Cold Calling
Which existing law prevents the use of technology to make marketing calls?
It seems to me that the problem that MPs are to address is the use of
machines which dial the calls automatically, and then one of the operators
drops in when the calls in answered. Because such outfits are thinly
staffed, sometimes there isn't an operator to take the call so the person
who answers gets a machine. The punter may very well have consent to make
such marketing calls. It's the method they are using that this proposed law
seems to target, and I can't see any problem with that.
Tim Turner
Data Protection Officer
Wigan Council
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> An interesting but odd proposed law. Surely what should be done is
> that the existing regulator should be called before a parliamentary
> committee to explain why the existing law is not enforced properly?
> Additional and potentially conflicting legislation is not what we
> need.
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