"David M" <david@bogus.domain.dom> wrote in message
news:slrne3llvd.9rq.david@pepper.local.lan...
> I was phoned up on my mobile over the weekend by some telecoms
company,
> which didn't particularly amuse me as I was busy in the middle of
> preparing/cooking my dinner at the time.
>
> I asked them where they'd got my number from, and they said it had
been
> randomly auto-dialled.
>
> Is this legal? I thought that the DPA and PECR prohibited sales
calls to
> individuals who did not have a pre-existing commercial relationship
with
> the caller and who had not previously explicitly consented to this?
>
> I've had a bit of a poke around the ICO website but I all I can see
is a
> suggestion that only TPS-registered numbers are expressly
prohibited,
> which seems to imply that non-registered numbers may be called until
the
> subscriber (subsequently) asks not to be called:
>
> http://www.ico.gov.uk/documentUpload...nications%20Pa
rt%201%20Version%203.pdf (page 12)
>
>
> Looks like I'll have to register my mobile with the TPS, then..?
>
Curiously TPS only works on a mobile if it is your own. If it belongs
to your employer they are not interested.
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Woody
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