I have already reached out quite a bit, independently of legislation. When people were calling my phone in the name of a company, it’s often very ham-fisted an

I have already reached out quite a bit, independently of legislation. When people were calling my phone in the name of a company, it’s often very ham-fisted and counter-productive for the brand; typically, they would have stale info like the name of the occupant from more than a decade prior. I generally push to ask how they got my number and if they actually work directly for them. So far, they never actually answer that one. Then, I search for the name of their Chief Marketing Officers on LinkedIn and write tho explain how I got such a bad experience. They often respond by saying that they never would cold-call people, especially not with such terrible information, so I detail that I suspect it’s a third party who they pay to bring traffic, or a local store who took the initiative. More often than not, they act on it because they realise the cost for their brand those have. I’ve been able to stop a lot of repetitive calls that way. I suspect that, if I can add up who is behind my data leaking, I can warn executive at the original company; it’s quite likely that they were not expecting the information to be sold, or re-used so transparently, or even to be confronted with it -- so I expect them to fight it internally, which should be a lot easier to enforce. Typically, for Google and Facebook Ad network, I don’t even have to do that: both let me black-list advertisers. I can only encourage everyone to do the same if some advertisers are acting suspiciously.