my TV down
okay i'm sorry
uh invasions of privacy um what most annoys me are all sorts of
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phone calls trying to to sell me things
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all all sorts of hours calling and
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especially with it being that i want investment advice that i want this service or that service or the other thing
yes and i hate those canned messages they put on my recorder
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my sense is that something may just have been done about it by congress and not clear
just what went into the
even the final will i think it does something about the random dialers that just dial phone numbers
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i guess in some cases they just consider pickup your
your phone and and and not let you use your phone for a while whether you hang up on them or not
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um but i thought i saw something about having some kind of provision that people could specify that their phones were
not for commercial use and and uh and uh people businesses would be prohibited uh from calling for purposes for purposes of of selling you things i'm sure that's true
i have through the phone company um no nine hundred numbers can be dialed from my phone or received
ah something i probably should do too i think i think government can do that now is that right
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and uh especially with with possibly children around um that could could be useful protection
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yes and i don't have children around but i just don't like those nine hundred numbers
so i've excluded those
yeah uh
but isn't it does not stop you from the uh dialing services
i should do that
what are dialing services
where they uh intend to sell you things
oh oh where people just just call you
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what another problem that has been eliminated those problems used to be when i used a credit card
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they'd want to have my phone number
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and i did not like giving it out or even give out my work number
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but i think i'm not sure if it's by law or just
otherwise i think the practice has basically been eliminated of asking for a phone number
well that's the thing i hated too about uh Radio Shack
if you go in and buy anything they want your phone number
how did Radio Shack work
and i don't think they're gonna call me and ask me how it's functioning
and and i don't give that out i have an unlisted number so i don't
yes that's that's that's one solution but you you you nonetheless often get get people calling you
sir
despite the fact that your number is unlisted
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and you believe they actually have your number or are they just calling a number that happens to be yours
well anything that you buy
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you can you may get put on a a uh
preferred list that is purchased
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and and companies can purchase this list and what that is is people who buy from the mail
yeah and they so whole list of addresses and list of phone numbers
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um i don't particularly mind the addresses
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is there anything you can do about that
like give out a phony phone number
uh not
not really
um no uh that unfortunately is legal
so
they can't stop people from uh uh advertising
and that and that's what it falls under it falls under the guise of advertising
so i don't care for it but
it is a legal uh uh solution
for some companies
so
but that's the way things are
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yeah i i don't know i think it's gotten much worse the last few years
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maybe that's just because i've gotten on more lists
well they you know that's that's the telephone is not the only invasion of privacy you've got the holy rollers and you've got uh all kinds of people knocking on your door
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who want to uh
either direct you to the right path or or or want to uh sell you uh paper routes uh whatever
so um you know it's not just the phone telephone
yeah sell you magazines
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i guess for whatever reason i guess we just don't get
