Level 3 Communications

Sign me up for a set.  Going to get the Greendot card right now.  Be right back!

Got it.  Your feedback is noted and being digested; both on the topic and the personal level.  The L3C  posts and threads are at least a warm button for me.  Being a debater is one thing, and in retrospect, in the heat, I became an orator.  And orators are much more apt to be one of those fellows I mentioned, in love with their words, shaking fingers at people and the Universe.

Thank God you didn't become a long winded poetical Politician.

I was going to run, but then everyone started to run the other way.  My Dad wanted to be canonized, as the Patron Saint of Gum Aerobic.  We are still working on that.  As an Episcopalian, it is JUST possible he would make the team.

This should shut up the Level 3 Lovers.
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/140625level3cmpt.pdf
yes, that IS a government website.

Now here's a colorful southern expression...
"Told y'all so!"

FTC found Level 3 Communications GUILTY of violating "Safe Harbor"act.
The FTC took Level 3 to court because they knowingly mislead the public into thinking they were protecting consumers. The obvious conclusion is that they are NOT protecting the public, otherwise the feds wouldn't have take them to court.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-release ... -eu-safe-harbor

Now, in all fairness to Level 3 here is the "Annoyance Hotline" that you can call and complain about the offending scammers/companies that cold call you: +1.800.348.5457 and here is the link so you know I'm not making it up: http://blog.level3.com/customer-experience/wh ... olicited-calls/
So by all means, call them up and complain about the telemarketer calls and see if they do anything.

Try reading the complaint you linked, all two pages of it, and surrounding material. Level 3 was among a dozen defendants across disparate industries. The FTC stated repeatedly -- on real government letterheads and real government websites -- that this was about lapsed certifications only. "The complaints do not allege", they also repeated, "that any Respondent committed any substantive violations of the privacy principles of the Safe Harbor framework."

I remember reading some of this after the order was issued. This seemed to be about keeping the European Union happy more than anything. The EU takes information privacy with a deadly seriousness the US could learn from. That said, the FTC has previously sued MySpace, Google, and Facebook for "substantive noncompliance" with the same Safe Harbor provisions.

I am waiting for the part where you run a half mile of yarn to connect this action to illegal telemarketing. Actually, I'm not, since I have real work to do and little time for "falling sky" arguments.