You are constantly harassed by touts wanting to sell you their junk. Thanks to the system developed by the UFC-Que Choisir association, you can disappear from the radar to no longer be contacted.
Not a day goes by, and we ourselves are victims of this in the editorial office, without the landline or mobile phone ringing with a call from a number unknown to us. On the other end of the line, a sales representative. Its goal is to make you change telephone operator, sell you new windows, a subscription, insurance, etc. Unfortunately, hanging up on them isn’t enough to demotivate them. The calls keep coming back. A real scourge against which the consumer association UFC-Que Choisir has been fighting for years. And to eradicate it, it may have found the right method by relying on the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) to which all companies in Europe must comply.
To contact you, direct sellers simply draw your contact details from the universal or public directory supplied by telephone operators. And as UFC-Que Choisir specifies, ” the GDPR states that consumers’ contact details can only be transmitted to the public directory if they have positively and actively consented to it, regardless of their telephone mode (fixed or mobile) “. In fact, by opposing their use, this data can no longer be recovered for commercial purposes.
To facilitate the process, the consumer association has therefore set up a free service so that anyone can ask their operator to stop the transfer of data, their sharing with third parties or even their deletion. All you have to do is fill out a very short form indicating your telephone operator (or the name of another company that is harassing you) and your email address. The tool then generates a ready-to-send email containing your request (mentioning the articles of the GDPR relating to your rights) as well as the recipient’s email address. You don’t have to do anything other than click Send. Practical. Especially since your operator will be obliged to relay your request to others.
In the meantime, you can also determine by the caller’s number displayed on your phone whether it is cold calling. It must begin with the following numbers: 0162, 0163, 0270, 0271, 0377, 0378, 0424, 0425, 0568, 0569, 0948, 0949.