Information Technology Acts It is inevitable that humanity would find ways to evolve communication with the creation of new technological. This certainty for improvement comes from many human aspects; economical, social, political, environmental, and scientifically. Information technology is a great innovation in our modern time and evolving for the future. Nevertheless, new information technological advancement calls for the creation of new acts. The Do Not Call Implementation Act of 2003 was created to enforced telemarketers to comply with the rules “Do-Not-Call”. This action was taken due to the high volume disturbance calls generated by telemarketers during evening hours when families are home from work and school. According to Banger, Evansburg, Watson, Welch (2003) the volume of disturbances calls was so high that the vast majority of the United State of America population took action. The public addressed the Federal Communication Commission, the Telecommunication Protection Act, and Federal Trade Commission stating their right to peace had been unethically violated by the telemarketers. (Banger et al. 2003) On February 12, 2003, the House of Representative overwhelmingly approved by a vote of 418-7 the "Do-Not-Call" Implementation Act (H.R. 395), authorizing the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) proposed national do-not-call registry. [Sec 15 Intell. Prop. & Tech. L. J., No. 3 (Mar. 2003).] The Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent on February 13, 2003, without amendment. On February 20, 2003, President Bush signed a government wide spending bill approving funds for the national registry. The Federal Trade Commission ruled formed a National Do-Not-Call Registry that allowed end users to register their telephone numbers blocking unnecessary telemarketing calls. This registry had an expiration time limit of five years creating a burden on the end user and the registry. The Federal Trade Commission concluded by ruling the change, making the registry permanent (Banger et al. 2003). The Fair Credit Report Act 1970 was implemented by Congress. This Act came about because of the Consumer Credit Protection Act in 1968. The implementation of the Act was to grant several civil liberty rights protection for consumers and enforce credit bureaus to comply with law. It also implies that all credit transaction to be carried out in a fair manner by protecting the consumer’s right to privacy and negating information demands from credit bureau companies. In addition the Fair Credit Report Act grants the right to consumers to see report activities, the right to grant access to information reports, right to correct invalid information, and the right to see reports for denial of credit. (Phelps, 2005) This gives the consumer the right to dispute any erroneous information posted on their credit reporting that may lead to the denial of employment, insurance, loans, or purchasing a house. In addition the denial report will have the name and address of the credit bureau surrendering the report (Phelps, 2005) When the Faire Credit Report Act was enacted in 1970, processing information was done by hand. Today with new technological information is process can be done with just a click of a mouse. "Credit bureaus now maintain 450 million credit files on individual consumers, process almost 2 billion pieces of data per month and sell 1.5 million credit records every day," said Sen. Richard H. Bryan, D-Nev., the bill's sponsor (Phelps, 2005). With new technology come new challenges. “Over the past four years, credit-report problems have become the No. 1 complaint before the Federal Trade Commission, Consumers have inundated Congress with horror stories of a faceless bureaucracy that ignored pleas to untangle their mixed-up records “(Phelps, 2005)
When creating new technological innovation that is to be introduce in to society for the betterment of humanity. One must take in to consideration how it will impact consumer’s social, economically, politically, and scientifically and if citizen’s civil liberties are in violation. Keeping in mind the consumer’s best interest and how new system can be beneficial for all involved should be the ultimate goal.