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Dec 4, 2009 Cell phones not immune to 'robocalls' - Candidates seeking to expand reach with calls. Gwen Rowling is accustomed to getting automated calls on her land line, but two automated calls from U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith to her cell phone this week caught her by surprise. Rowling, an Austin consultant, is one of 210,000 cell phone users who received so-called robo-calls from Smith, a... The Austin Statesman more...
Dec 3, 2009 McCain Returns To Robocalls To Target Health Care, Democrats Slightly further under the radar, McCain has put out a nearly identical robocall for himself in Arizona, in which he again touts the work he did in introducing "the first Republican amendment to the massive health care bill, which would send the bill back to the Senate Finance Committee and stop... Huffington Post more...
Sep 4, 2009 Political robocalls already a no-no in Minnesota After reading my blog post this week about new limits on prerecorded telemarketing calls, Shaun Dakin pointed out that Minnesota is one of a handful of states that goes further than the feds by banning virtually all robocalls, including those from politicians. Dakin is the head of a... Star Tribune (MN) more...
Sep 4, 2009 Back-to-school speech spurs robocalls to parents Parents in school districts in Texas, Louisiana and South Carolina have also gone online to discuss receiving similar calls from the local school district, said Shaun Dakin, chief executive and founder of the National Political Do Not Contact Registry, a nonprofit advocacy program. The Hill more...
Sep 1, 2009 Reining In the Robocalls Shaun Dakin, who heads the National Political Do-Not-Contact Registry has been on the frontlines of the robocall battle for the past several years. Dakin�s registry of voters who don�t want to receive the calls is ever growing, but the legislative efforts are still stalling. To those who think... Politics Magazine more...
Aug 28, 2009 Some Robocalls Will Be Banned Other calls not covered by the ban include those from charities, banks, insurers, phone companies, surveys, prescription notifications and those from politicians. "Robocalls are essentially an invasion of privacy," says Shaun Dakin, founder of stoppoliticalcalls.org. Since 2007 his... News Channel 13 more...
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