Julie Ann Dawson Quotes

Virtually every community in the country has legislation regulating door-to-door trade, yet telemarketers have run unchecked for years. The industry in general uses all sorts of slimy tricks to make sure you never make it to the do-not-call list.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.

I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway.

The industry must adhere to certain consumer protection norms if the Internet is to remain an open platform for innovation.

I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.

The true test of a privacy policy is the remedy to consumers if their privacy is invaded.

… corporations do almost everything that the federal government has been banned from doing under various laws, in particular the Privacy Act of 1974.

Basic labeling and consumer information hasn’t been a chief priority, but hopefully now its starting to change.

[T]he [Facebook] settlement sends a powerful message about the importance of privacy. The cost of privacy violations like Facebook’s just increased dramatically. And if the need for companies to take privacy commitments seriously was not clear before, it is now.

Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.

The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.

No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

Everyone believes that artificial or prerecorded calls - 'robocalls,' as they're known - are awful. They're intrusive. They're unwanted.

For too long, Americans have been plagued by unwanted and unlawful robocalls. For too long, they've found unauthorized charges and changes to their phone service on their bills - practices commonly known as 'slamming' and 'cramming.' And for too long, some phone calls that are placed to rural residents have been dropped.

For illegal robocallers, the goal isn't always getting you to answer. Sometimes, it's getting you to call back.

Over the years, countless people throughout South Jersey have shared with me that they are constantly harassed by robocalls and scams. Members of Congress have a responsibility to hold scammers responsible for their abusive practices and protect the American people from this abuse.

In consumer protection, you can say it hurts business; that is, it makes them comply with the law, which is actually what we want them to do, but it helps consumers.

The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

Code plus law is combining to reduce rights consumers used to have.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."