[LINK] telemarketers, aaarrgh

[Viveka]

I believe that at the very least, you should have a legal right to opt 
out, which organisations would be required to respect. So if I ask to be 
taken off their list, they have to do it, or face sufficient penalties 
to put them out of business. Further, any organisation should be 
required by law to tell me where they got my contact details, so that I 
can opt-out of the upstream database. I know that the first part of this 
is in some self-regulatory body's Code of Practice; but if it doesn't 
hold the force of law, then it's not worth my time to opt out, given the 
likelihood that the buggers will decide not to conform to this entirely 
voluntary code.

Further, any agency holding information about me should be required to 
show me their data, so that I can correct it if necessary. The idea that 
my credit records, for example, are inaccessible to me, or that my 
medical records can be if my Doctor chooses, is wrongheaded.

Meanwhile, why don't we make Spam illegal in Oz? We've shown willingness 
to prosecute defendants from other countries, as seen in that Victorian 
libel case; Dr.