Why the Do Not Call Registry Is Not Enough The National Do Not Call Registry stops legitimate telemarketers — companies that follow FTC rules and scrub their call lists every 31 days. It does not stop robocallers, which by definition are operating outside the law. The FTC received over 1.8 million Do Not Call …

The Call You Did Not Ask For The FTC received 1.8 million Do Not Call complaints in fiscal year 2023. The actual volume of unwanted calls is far higher — most people hang up without filing a complaint. Robocalls peaked in 2019 at an estimated 58 billion calls in the U.S. alone, and while enforcement has driven that …

Your Inbox Is Not Broken — It Is Being Harvested Spam accounts for roughly 45% of all email traffic globally, according to Statista's 2024 data. That volume is not random noise — your address is on lists. It got there through form submissions, shopping accounts, data broker sales, and in some cases outright scraping of …

Your Data Is Being Sold Right Now Data brokers are companies that collect, aggregate, and sell personal information — your name, address, phone number, email, relatives, estimated income, purchase history, and more — without your direct knowledge or consent. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit that has …

Why You Are Receiving So Much Unwanted Communication Unwanted mail, calls, and email are not random — they are the output of a multi-billion-dollar data ecosystem that buys, sells, and rents your contact information without your knowledge. According to the Federal Trade Commission, data brokers collect information from …