Information Technology Acts

Information Technology Acts

In the 20th century everything is accessible to the people of the world through the worldwide web. Anything a person wants to find can search it online and if he or she cannot find it someone online can find it for the individual for a price. Everything in a person's life is not as private as he or she thought it was; personal cell phones are not even off limits to privacy. I do not give out my cell phone number unless I know the person but recently I have been getting calls from phone numbers not even in my area code. The callers have the nerve to leave messages on my voicemail. Most of the voice messages left are recordings from machines. They are pre-recorded telemarketers leaving me messages about how my name popped up in their computers, so at this point I hit the delete button and I do not know what they called for. I am unsure about how these telemarketers got a personal cell phone number; I thought cell phone numbers were unpublished or unlisted. When I have tried looking up a cell phone number on the Internet the website usually wants me to pay for access to see the owner of the cell number's information. So how do telemarketers get such easy access?

The advances in information technology today have allowed the easy access to the individual's personal lives and cell phones. A person orders something from a website he or she has to provide the website with personal cell phone numbers and e-mail addresses in case there items have issues during the shipping process. That procedure has allowed every telemarketer in the world the right to call personal cell phone numbers. Telemarketers also have help from information technology with something called an automated dialing system. This system sifts through answering machines, fax machines, and disconnected numbers before calling any random phone number. There is also something called a predictive dialer that dials several phone numbers at the same time. Once one of those calls is answered the telemarketer takes the call that was answered and the other calls either get a hang up or there is dead silence on the other end. Then there are the financial institutions known for selling their clients personal information to telemarketers.

Some of these telemarketers try to silicate a certain group of people like the elderly, or people with zero or low credit. The telemarketer tries to convince the consumer to spend money with his or her company leading the consumer to believe he or she will get an even greater reward. Because there are worldwide telemarketers who have easy access from using the advances in information technology there are many more fraudulent acts committed and the consumers are falling for them and losing their money. These fraudulent acts have created new ethical issues for the government to deal with. George W. H. Bush signed into law in 1991 the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which