ADVISORY/ Audio conference on junk email and the DMA, telemarketing at the FTC.Business Editors ADVISORY...(for Friday, Jan. 7, 2000) Conference calls on two key privacy topics will be held with leading consumer advocates, discussing two new developments. -- The Direct Marketing Association is expected to launch its "Electronic Mail Preference Service" (e-MPS) Monday. Leading anti-spam groups will call on Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f and companies to reject this attempt to change email marketing from an "opt-in" to an "opt-out" system. An audio conference call will be held Monday 10 January at 11am EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy . A detailed press release will also be available Monday morning on BusinessWire or from http://www.junkbusters.com/news/ on the Web. -- The Federal Trade Commission will hold Tuesday a public forum on the topic of telemarketers who persist in Verb 1. persist in - do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop; "We continued our research into the cause of the illness"; "The landlord persists in asking us to move" continue calling consumers after being told not to call, an offense under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. During the lunch break of the forum several participants will hold audio conference call, at 12:30pm EST Tuesday 11 January. Call-in procedures are the same for both audio conferences. Call 918-222-7123, wait for tone, enter code 2350 followed by the pound sign. Participants in the conference calls will include: -- Jason Catlett, President of Junkbusters Corp., described by Internet news-magazine the Industry Standard as "privacy's most public face" -- Ray Everett-Church Ray Everett-Church (born 1969 in Florida), is an American attorney, entrepreneur and author. He was dubbed "the dean of corporate Chief Privacy Officers" by Inter@ctive Week magazine, first creating that title and position in 1999 at online marketing company AllAdvantage. , co-founder and general counsel of the Coalition Against Unsolicited un·so·lic·it·ed adj. Not looked for or requested; unsought: an unsolicited manuscript; unsolicited opinions. unsolicited Adjective Email (CAUCE CAUCE Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email ), an expert in the law and policy of information technology, Internet commerce, and intellectual property in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . -- Diana Mey of Wheeling, WV, a stay-at-home mother of three who has fought companies who made illegal telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. calls to her. Ms Mey was recently featured by People magazine as one of the most interesting people of 1999. About Junkbusters Junkbusters Corp. helps consumers defend themselves against intrusive marketing and protect their privacy online. At http://www.junkbusters.com the company provides extensive free resources for stopping telemarketing calls, unwanted physical mail, junk email, and commercial invasions of privacy on the Internet. Its popular Anti-Telemarketing Script can be printed from http://www.junkbusters.com/script.html on the Web. |
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