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Oct 2006, Ibrahim Hasan <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Recently I have been getting many unsolcited calls from BT's Automated
>Text Message Delivery Service telling me I have received a text message
>to my landline. My phone service is through NTL and not BT.
>Is BT doing anything wrong under the DPA or the Privacy and Electronic
>Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003? According to ICO:
>"Unsolicited marketing transmitted by automated direct marketing phone
>calls must have the prior consent of the subscriber and must include the
>caller's identity."
It's not marketing, nor do I believe it is an "automated" message in the
sense that the regulation was seeking to ban. The sort of automated
message they are talking about are "sales pitches" made by machine.
>I know it can be argued that this is not marketing but something does
>not feel right. I would be ineterested in colleagues' views.
I was unaware that this service existed, and certainly had never
knowingly subscribed to it. But then my wife mistakenly sent an SMS to
our home landline (rather than my mobile). This was then (very poorly)
text-to-speech converted. I had a feeling that I'd prefer a service
which sent an SMS back to the sender, saying they'd sent a message to an
inappropriate number.
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Roland Perry
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