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Fun fact: Cold calling private individuals is illegal in Germany.
by i5heu 3y ago
Fun fact:
Cold calling private individuals is illegal in Germany.
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- Alupis 3y agoThere's very little point in having un-enforceable laws.
- jabradoodle 3y agohttps://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2010/100729FinesColdCalling.html https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
- Alupis 3y ago> In the period from August 2009 until April 2010 we received more than 57,000 written complaints about unsolicited sales calls alone... That's just reported complaints. Ya... this law is practically un-enforceable. A couple example cases doesn't mean Germany banned cold calling when apparently thousands and thousands and thousands go un-prosecuted.
- jabradoodle 3y agoHaving a law doenst mean no one breaks it.
- i5heu 3y ago> So far, the Federal Network Agency has terminated eleven administrative offences proceedings involving cold calling with the issue of administrative orders imposing a fine and has imposed fines totalling about EUR 694,000 Also i just don't get cold calls, and know no one else that gets these... it works!
- MandieD 3y agoTIL... despite nearly two decades here! I knew it was illegal for businesses to use contact information you gave them for some other reason to later market to you without your permission (especially after GDPR went into effect), but not that it was also illegal for them to simply sit down with the phone book or an autodialer.