Advances in Technology
Advances in Technology and it's Results
Roderick Moye
BIS/220
July-09-2013
George Tubrea
Advances in Technology and its Results
Today’s technology poses plenty of advantages and makes life much more covenant for the average citizen. Along with these advantages come disadvantages that can interfere with ones daily activity and become a disruption as well as a nuisance. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Do Not Call Implementation Act; are just two results of how the change and advances of technology reconstructs normal activity and turn convenience into a nuisance and propose ethical issues.
Before these two Acts were implemented technology made it easy for companies to retrieve information such as addresses and phone numbers of consumers for marketing purposes. ANI (automatic number identification) is a database that identifies and stores a consumer’s number when he or she dials 900,888 or 800 numbers and matches it with other online numbers associated with the consumer. Another way marketers can retrieve a consumer number is by the Internet. When a person accept certain terms and agreements in the small print it says that a persons information may be shared with other companies and or that company is not responsible if the consumer is contacted by other companies through passing along the user contact information.
In todays time many fraudulent companies have been able to simply purchase this information or tap into a buyer’s online account as for the cause to contact a consumer to solicit sales. With the Do Not Call and Telephone Consumer Protection Act legitimate companies only have the right to call consumers that are not on the do not call list. Companies also have strict guidelines that are to be followed or a large fine and lawsuit will be the result of breaking the law. Not to mention that in an event that a phone call is made to a consumer that is on the do not call list, than the company has to provide evidence that it was
Roderick Moye
BIS/220
July-09-2013
George Tubrea
Advances in Technology and its Results
Today’s technology poses plenty of advantages and makes life much more covenant for the average citizen. Along with these advantages come disadvantages that can interfere with ones daily activity and become a disruption as well as a nuisance. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Do Not Call Implementation Act; are just two results of how the change and advances of technology reconstructs normal activity and turn convenience into a nuisance and propose ethical issues.
Before these two Acts were implemented technology made it easy for companies to retrieve information such as addresses and phone numbers of consumers for marketing purposes. ANI (automatic number identification) is a database that identifies and stores a consumer’s number when he or she dials 900,888 or 800 numbers and matches it with other online numbers associated with the consumer. Another way marketers can retrieve a consumer number is by the Internet. When a person accept certain terms and agreements in the small print it says that a persons information may be shared with other companies and or that company is not responsible if the consumer is contacted by other companies through passing along the user contact information.
In todays time many fraudulent companies have been able to simply purchase this information or tap into a buyer’s online account as for the cause to contact a consumer to solicit sales. With the Do Not Call and Telephone Consumer Protection Act legitimate companies only have the right to call consumers that are not on the do not call list. Companies also have strict guidelines that are to be followed or a large fine and lawsuit will be the result of breaking the law. Not to mention that in an event that a phone call is made to a consumer that is on the do not call list, than the company has to provide evidence that it was