iOptOut
University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist has launched iOptOut, a website allowing Canadians to opt out of unsolicited phone calls and emails. iOptOut is meant to complement the federal government’s Do-Not-Call list, expected sometime in the fall of this year:
“By registering with iOptOut, you inform the organizations that you select listed in our database that you do not want them to call you. Under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), these organizations would be required to respect your request. At the present time, iOptOut relies on PIPEDA, which overrides Bill C-37’s exemptions.
If an organization contacts you after you make a do-not-call request to it through iOptOut, PIPEDA allows you to enforce your request by filing a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner.”
5 Responses
3:07 pm
Amazing that the federal government’s Do Not Call List Legislation is dated Dec 2004 and we are still waiting for it, and Michael Geist is able to get his list up and running now. Maybe the feds need a little less bureaucracy and a little more collaboration with individuals such as Geist. Then we’d really have a chance to finish our suppers without those annoying phone calls!
11:28 am
I just want the phone calls to stop
5:55 pm
Please make them stop, I want to be left alone, alone, alone………………
7:35 pm
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