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Telephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 - Text of the federal law:
http://antitele.home.texas.net/laws/47usc.txt
FCC do-not-call telemarketing regulations, 47 C.F.R. § 64.1200 - Text of the FCC regulations: http://antitele.home.texas.net/laws/47cfr.txt
www.do-not-call.com - Run by Robert Braver, a great anti-telemarketer crusader from Oklahoma. Includes a sign-up form for an email discussion list for persons who are personally interested in taking legal action against the initiators of illegal unsolicited prerecorded telephone solicitations under the federal law (TCPA).
www.dianamey.com - Diana Mey and her family went toe-to-toe with Sears telemarketers who persistently called in spite of her do-not-call requests. Diana has appeared on numerous local and national television and radio, and was one of People Magazine's most intriguing people of 1999.
www.tcpalaw.com - Resources for consumer protection attorneys and experienced pro se litigants. Password protected by the site operator, Robert Biggerstaff.
antitele.home.texas.net - Joe Shields Southwest Texas site. Joe is another great crusader working very hard to reduce the number of telemarketers in southeast Texas.
www.junkbusters.com/telemarketing.html - lots of good ideas, draft letters, anti-telemarketing script, links, etc.; run by national privacy expert Jason Catlett.
www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs5-tmkt.htm - the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has a very informative page on telemarketing, and other privacy and consumer topics.
www.commercialalert.org - Commercial Alert is a Ralph Nader project, which has taken a few stands on telemarketing, such as the use of celebrity voices to deliver telemarketing solicitations.
www.privatecitizen.com - site of Bob Bulmash, one of the earliest pioneers against telemarketing calls, junk mail, and junk faxes. Private Citizen maintains its own do-not-call list which it provides to many national marketers on behalf of its members. Membership is $20, and worth considering to preserve your privacy.
www.stopjunkcalls.com - run by Robert Arkow and oriented towards California telemarketing. Interesting links and a variety of articles not on other sites.
www.tommabe.com - the lighter side of fighting telemarketing. Tom Mabe has sample audio clips from his CDs of his real and humorous calls from telemarketers. Also an active message board.
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