These "do not call" and "do not track" approaches are ass-backwards. Rather than having to opt-out in order not to be exploited, we should have to deliberately opt-in to give a company or class of "service providers" our permission for such exploitation.

For instance, the do-not-call list still allows a window for tracking companies to get hold of new phone subscriber information before the prohibition becomes active. Once on these lists, your information still gets sold and circulated, often to miscreants who deliberately violate the laws, knowing that as long as they withhold certain information required for you to prove whom you're dealing with, you won't be able to successfully prosecute them. Companies should never have that window in the first place, and people shouldn't be victimized because they're insufficiently informed how to enroll themselves on the no-call list.

Furthermore, as long as we're paying for our phone service, not even "pollsters", political parties or charities should be able to call us unless we've explicitly signed up to be pestered with such crap. That's not "free speech", it's phone abuse, especially considering the many other venues they have for forcibly proselytizing.

So don't support any new legislation unless it takes the saner, safer opt-in approach to these forms of exploitation. We're supposed to have a government "for the people"--start demanding that it be so, and let the corporate rhetoric about "free speech" be damned.