Michael Geist, Law Professor at the University of Ottowa responded to the frustrations of Canada’s do-not-call list and created iOptOut. He explains in his blog post, “Regular readers of my work will know that I have been frustrated by Canada’s do-not-call list, which contains far too many exceptions and has taken an embarrassingly long time to become operational.”
Under Canadian Law, all organizations must remove you from their call lists if you request to do so. However, the Canadian government has been very slow to create such a list. iOptOut allows a person to list their phone number, check off which organizations they do not wish to hear from again and iOptOut sends emails to the organizations asking that the phone numbers be taken off their lists.
I think this is a fantastic website to address the short comings of the Canadian government and finally allows people to get off those damn telemarketing lists.
