Telemarketing/privacy Issues: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1304 and H.R. 1305, Bills to Amend the Communications Act of 1934 to Regulate the Use of Telephones in Making Commercial Solicitations and to Protect the Privacy Rights of Subscribers, April 24, 1991, Volume 4

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Page 31 - Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers. Our chief objective is to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of public regulation in America.
Page 39 - Composed of over 200 state and local affiliates representing consumer, senior citizen, low-income, labor, farm, public power and cooperative organizations, the Consumer Federation of America's purpose is to represent consumer Interests before congress and the federal agencies.
Page 32 - ... now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Executive Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), assembled at its...
Page 71 - ... caller. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates authorizes its Executive Committee to develop specific positions consistent with the terms of this resolution on a legislative bill, regulation, or any other type of proposal which concerns the subject of the resolution including the preparation of policy papers and communications reflecting NASUCA's position to the United States Congress.
Page 47 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee: I greatly appreciate the opportunity to testify before you today on behalf of the...
Page 48 - ... trap and trace device" means a device which captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which identify the originating number of an instrument or device from which a wire or electronic communication was transmitted...
Page 50 - The numbers dialed from a private telephone — although certainly more prosaic than the conversation itself — are not without "content." Most private telephone subscribers may have their own numbers listed in a publicly distributed directory, but I doubt there are any who would be happy to have broadcast to the world a list of the local or long distance numbers they have called. This is not because such a list might in some sense be incriminating, but because it easily could reveal the identities...
Page 106 - Posadas de Puerto Rico Assoc. v. Tourism Co., 478 US 328, 340 (1986). Although such speech may be subject to government regulation in furtherance of "a sufficiently strong, subordinating interest that the [government] is entitled to protect...
Page 30 - I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, and the members of the committee for your willingness to hear my views on the situation in South Vietnam.

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