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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf they are conducting phone traffic analysis, why are there illegal telemarketers?
To me, the most practical application of broad analysis of phone records would be to find and destroy telemarketers. There would be a concrete return on investment. Yet I keep getting "there is no problem with your account" phone calls...
Warpy
(111,419 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)In fact, I had one ask just the other day... "How do you feel about paying taxes? Do you feel you're taxed too much? Have you been out of the country lately?"
There was a strange cyclical beep in the background, but I didn't know what it was...
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)It's far more profitable to promote corporate interests, instead of cracking down on them.
wandy
(3,539 posts)kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)in the period leading up to the Great Financial BooBoo? We could get to the bottom of that supposedly impenetrably tangled mess pretty quickly with evidence of intent to mislead regulators, defraud clients and shaft stockholders.
I don't know why they haven't been asked to, exactly, but I know they wouldn't do that - or would resist it bitterly. (Ratting on a brother corporation is bad form)
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)Eliminating illegal telemarketers is not their goal and the telemarketers are not an obstacle to what they are doing.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Thus the call comes from outside US jurisdiction, but within the US phone system (Canada and the US share the same phone system).
If it makes you feel any better, Canadians get illegal telemarketers calling via the US.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)It's wrong, very wrong, wrong when bush was doing it and wrong now.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)But trying to stifle any conversation about it just as wrong. Lighten up, Francis.