[speaker001:] my TV down
[speaker002:] okay I'm sorry
[speaker001:] uh invasions of privacy um what most annoys me are all sorts of
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] phone calls trying to to sell me things
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] all all sorts of hours calling and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] especially with it being that I want investment advice that I want this service or that service or the other thing
[speaker002:] yes and I hate those canned messages they put on my recorder
[speaker001:] um 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] I have through the phone company um no nine hundred numbers can be dialed from my phone or received
[speaker001:] ah something I probably should do too I think I think government can do that now is that right
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh especially with with possibly children around um that could could be useful protection
[speaker002:] um-hum right yes and I don't have children around but I just don't like those nine hundred numbers so I've excluded those
[speaker001:] yeah uh
[speaker002:] but isn't it does not stop you from the uh dialing services
[speaker001:] I should do that what are dialing services
[speaker002:] where they uh intend to sell you things
[speaker001:] oh oh where people just just call you
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum and leave again that canned message on the
[speaker001:] um yes what another problem that has been eliminated those problems used to be when I used a credit card
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] they'd want to have my phone number
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and I did not like giving it out or even give out my work number
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] 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
[speaker002:] well that's the thing I hated too about uh Radio Shack if you go in and buy anything they want your phone number
[speaker001:] how did Radio Shack work
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yes that's that's that's one solution but you you you nonetheless often get get people calling you
[speaker002:] sir
[speaker001:] despite the fact that your number is unlisted
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and you believe they actually have your number or are they just calling a number that happens to be yours
[speaker002:] well anything that you buy
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um you can you may get put on a a uh preferred list that is purchased
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and and companies can purchase this list and what that is is people who buy from the mail
[speaker001:] yeah and they so whole list of addresses and list of phone numbers
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um I don't particularly mind the addresses um is there anything you can do about that like give out a phony phone number
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I I don't know I think it's gotten much worse the last few years
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] maybe that's just because I've gotten on more lists
[speaker002:] 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
[speaker001:] yep
[speaker002:] um 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
[speaker001:] yeah sell you magazines uh-huh I guess for whatever reason I guess we just don't get