Cramming affects regular, hard-working Americans who are being scammed out of their hard-earned dollars.
AT&T stated that it is legally required to permit third-party billing on its telephone bills.
Without strict deterrence or fear of retribution for those scamming the public, we are certainly not adequately addressing this issue.
I especially want to recognize my former colleague, Lisa Madigan, the Attorney General of Illinois.
It's time for us, I think, to do something more about it.
Their sole purpose is to place bogus charges on your telephone bill and they're very, very good at that.
This hearing is about a scam that has cost telephone customers billions of dollars.
It's called cramming and it refers to what we call mysterious charges that appear on American phone bills.
I very much appreciate the work that went into this year-long investigation.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Chairman Baucus and Chairman Camp, let me thank you both for your bipartisan leadership in putting together th...
it eliminated third-party billing in 2007 after receiving cramming complaints from its customers.
We encourage industry to develop new standards to facilitate more meaningful choices across a consumer's online experiences.
We urge this committee not to further weaken notification requirements.
Chairman Rockefeller's bill is a much-needed component in today's privacy discussion.
This is why we strongly support initiatives like Senator Pryor's data security legislation, which would set a single, national, preemptive s...
This is why we support the concepts in Senator Rockefeller's do-not-track legislation.
The Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2011... particularly timely and relevant.
Consumers Union also strongly supports Chairman Rockefeller's Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011 as an important and necessary component of con...
