Public opt-out registry, which allows citizens to opt-out of unwanted telemarketing calls by revoking consent to advertising, and of the transfer to third parties of previously provided personal data, in the hopes of not being contacted, reveals to be a flop. According to a sociological poll done by the National Consumers Union precisely one month following the entrance of the new Register, harassing phone calls have risen rather than decreased from the end of August. While 57.5% of those surveyed who signed up for the new Register reported a reduction in unwanted phone calls by August's end, and 37.2% said that their calls had completely stopped, an improvement for 94.7 percent of respondents, just 10.1 percent reported that their calls had stopped by November, while 56.9% reported a reduction in unwanted calls (for 35.4% they decreased only a little, for 21.5% quite a lot) . If for 67% there was still an improvement compared to the past, it is unsettling that for 25.3% the phone calls did not decrease and for 7.6% they grew, a possibility that did not emerge in the August poll.
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