Posted on 09/03/2014 1:05:07 PM PDT by upchuck
The FCC said about 2 million new customers weren't given a notice about opting out of disclosing their personal info for marketing purposes
Verizon will pay $7.4 million to settle charges the company failed to give about 2 million new customers the choice to opt out of allowing their personal information to be used in marketing campaigns, government regulators announced Wednesday.
Federal regulators found Verizon failed to send privacy opt-out notices to some new customers as early as 2006. Verizon officials failed to discover the error until Sept. 2012, then waited 126 days before notifying the Federal Communications Commission about the lapse, federal regulators wrote in the statement. ...snip...
Under the settlement’s terms, Verizon will be required to include opt-out notices on every bill—not just the first bill—and to be monitored to ensure that customers are receiving proper notices of their privacy rights, the FCC said.
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How come no one goes to jail for shenanigans like this? Is violating a FCC regulation not a crime?
> Under the settlement’s terms, Verizon will be required to include opt-out notices on every bill—not just the first bill—and to be monitored to ensure that customers are receiving proper notices of their privacy rights, the FCC said.
If you autopay, then you don’t get a bill.
It is amazing how little I miss it.
A ringing cell phone is as disruptive to my life as an alarm clock which goes off at 3 am.
Is this a DU thread?
I agree with you.
Tip
I have always had the ring of a phone in my life. I’m 67 years old.
My cell comes with a deluxe feature. I can mute the ringer or turn the phone off whenever I don’t want my life disrupted
I think you mean if you opt out of paper billing and or you set up for auto-payment AND opt to forego paper billing in which case you are not snail mailed a bill, but you should still be able to view a complete billing statement if you log into your account on-line.
I went entirely paperless a few years ago, not because I’m a “greenie” but because I have no need or use for the USPS. I have a monthly few bills set up for auto pay like my car payment and auto insurance but not all, but none mail me a bill including ATT for my cell phone, but if I log on to my account I can view a complete bill just like the one that would have been mailed to me in a PDF. And IIRC, when I was with Verizon it worked the same.
I wonder if Jennifer Lawrence knows who Lois Lerner is?
This proves that you should store nothing of a private nature on the cloud.
How much of the fine is going to liberal groups?
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