(I don't know anything else about the politics on the Left Coast,
so have no idea if this represents general Good Stuff by the AG there or
if it's the exception that proves the rule, but ...)
(SAN DIEGO) Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed a consumer
protection lawsuit against Aliso Viejo-based Fax.com, seeking more
than $15 million in penalties and other relief and alleging the firm
committed rampant violations of state and federal law in sending
unsolicited adverti*ts via fax and prerecorded phone messages.
"Fax.com, with high-level technology and low-level respect for the
law, runs a 24-hour privacy invasion operation that continually spews
unsolicited faxes and prerecorded phone calls," said Lockyer. "Junk
faxes cost consumers, businesses and taxpayers tens of millions of
dollars every year. Consumers' privacy, choice and pocketbooks have to
be protected. With this action, and through our other efforts to
fight spam and quiet telemarketers, that's exactly what my office
intends to do."
snippety snip, rest at:
http://www.veryComputer.com/
danny " wishes all the 50 State webmasters would sit down and standardize
the url syntax for their key offices " burstein
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