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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to require polling organisations and organisations conducting market research to abide by the preferences of citizens who have opted out of cold-calling via the Telephone Preference Service. More details
Submitted by Tom Coates – Deadline to sign up by: 02 October 2008 – Signatures: 114
More details from petition creator
All organisations that want to cold-call to sell or market products in the UK have to check that the person they're contacting has not declared they do not want to receive such calls via the Telephone Preference Service. At present, polling and research organisations are not required to abide by this law, and most of them choose not to do so.
One example is Ipsos MORI who say on their site that to not call people who have registered on the TPS would 'deny [people who have said they do not want to be called] the opportunity of participating in [Ipsos MORI's] research'. This particular organisation does allow you to subsequently opt out of further contact from them, but does not stop other polling organisations undertaking exactly the same processes.
This petition contends that it is not up to polling or market-research organisations to decide whether or not people would like to be cold-called, it is up to the people they make their money from.
The British public should be able to refuse cold-calling by polling organisations at the Telephone Preference Service, and the Government should hold these organisations to account if they violate this agreement.
Current signatories
Tom Coates, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Matt Locke
- Dan Hon
- Stefan Magdalinski
- Louise Oldfield
- Meg Pickard
- Karen Francis
- Matthew Hardy
- David White
- Victoria Carney
- Alex Balfour
- Michael O'Flaherty
- Manar Hussain
- James Cronin
- Cait Hurley
- Tom Hodgkinson
- Gavin Starks
- Neil Matheson
- Matthew Petty
- Robin Drake
- Luca Belletti
- Scott Matthewman
- Christopher Riley
- Tom Martin
- Paul Love
- Tom Morris
- Mark Drayton
- Meghan Jones
- David Riddell
- Paul Smith
- Chris Lavington
- Mark Garnett
- James Stewart
- Garrett Coakley
- Max Schaefer
- Jonathan Whiteland
- Ben Bodien
- Tim Regan
- Peter Ferne
- Stuart Hardy
- nick richards
- Bryan Pollard
- Alasdair Watson
- Owen Blacker
- Fiona Romeo
- Ruth Harper
- Paul Morriss
- David Hughes
- Andrew Main
- Brian Kellett
- Julie Hamwood
- Michael Davies
- Loz Pycock
- Adam Auden
- Paul Carvill
- Phil Edwards
- James Gregory
- Kathryn Miller
- Gerry Leonidas
- Stephen Newey
- Noah Slater
- Jordan Wall
- Cal Henderson
- Jonathan Hadley
- L MacDonald
- Mark Lloyd
- Alex Little
- Laurie Voss
- John Talbot
- Robert Foxx
- Christopher Hill-Scott
- Tom Maslen
- Christopher Winton
- Sam Smith
- Giles Turnbull
- Jonathan Lister
- Joanne Kaye
- Euan Semple
- Steven Marshall
- Danny Amey
- Ben Ward
- Christopher Townson
- Robert Stokes
- Tim Hartley
- Matt
- Ryan Lavallee
- Anne Boyle
- Darren Gilbert
- Dan Dixon
- brian varney
- Margaret King
- Jenny Lilleyman
- Michael Cook
- P Lewis
- M Tan
- philip camp
- Richard Reay
- Jonathan Preston
- Michael Titmas
- Christopher Peter Phillips
- Wes Brown
- Nigel Ware
- Malcolm Hope
- Maximilian Longhin
- Steven Ferguson
- Alistair Simpson
- Paul Harman
- anne-marie francis
- Antony Simpson
- Peter Randall
- Hannah Grundy
- PETER HOWARD
- Steve Hallett
- Stuart Fyfe
