The Federal Trade Commission has implemented new rules banning those annoying recorded sales pitches.
The FTC amended its Telemarketing Sales Rule after reviewing more than 14,000 comments made since October 2006, when proposed amendments were published for public consideration.
There are two stages to the change: By December 2008, robocalls will be required to include an automated [...]

So what exactly is the legal status of the nearly 20,000 people who forgot or simply didn’t want to present ID in order to fly?
The TSA began storing the information in late June, tracking many people who said they had forgotten their driver’s license or passport at home. The database has 16,500 records of such [...]