Senator Brownsberger is co-sponsoring the Electronic Privacy Act and Representative Rushing’s racial profiling data collection bill. Several constituents have asked him to sponsor civil liberties and privacy legislation. Here is a constituent e-mail about these privacy and civil liberties issues.
Privacy
No More Robo Calls
As a politician, I have not been above the occasional robo call, but as a consumer, I get how annoying they are. The Boston Globe recently did a story on a service offered through nomorobo.com which causes robo calls not to ring through to your house. We’ve signed up for it at our house and it seems to work well.
Implementation of New Background Check Law
The steps taken by Watertown, Belmont, and Boston to implement An Act Relative to Background Checks, Chapter 459 of the Acts of 2012, as amended by Chapter 77 of the Acts of 2013, which requires national background checks for all private and public school employees, contractors, transportation providers, vendors and certain volunteers (those designated by schools), as well as for employees of early education centers licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care.
Decedent’s Electronic Assets
Jim Berets asks about proposals at the state level to address the ownership of electronic assets of deceased residents.
FCC/State rules about telemarketing calls
Our office has had some questions from residents who have been annoyed by the volume of calls they receive from autodialers. The FCC has specific rules for automatic telephone dialing systems. These rules apply whether or not you have registered your home phone number(s) on the national Do-Not-Call list. The links below were provided by …
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Identity theft – Difficulty establishing “fraud alerts” beyond three months
June Roberts asks: What can be done to make it easier to extend the period of fraud alert notices from consumer credit reporting agencies?