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Join thousands of Private Citizen members across America who enjoy their right to be left alone.  Private Citizen is America's first, largest and most effective organization of its type to cut your junk calls and junk mail.

Cut Junk Calls -  $20 Basic Annual Membership
You will be listed in the Private Citizen Directory, a do-not-call list sent to over 1,000 local and national junk call firms and list sellers across America.  The Directory notifies them of your unwillingness to be freely junk called or have your name sold, and warns them of your $500 fee if they use your time and telephone to solicit you.  Private Citizen members consider any phone solicitation to be a junk call; sales, survey, non-profit, and political calls. 

Members get a list of firms to whom we sent the Directory and info on telemarketing laws.  Since junk callers don't know which of us will sue if they refuse to pay, they avoid us like a mine field.  Our members report a 75% drop in junk calls. We've helped our colleagues collect more than $2.9 Million from telemarketers.  

By calling 888-382-1222 you can place your home / cell phone number on the national do-not-call list; which is a free service of the federal government.  Sadly, the federal program does not cover political, survey or charity calls.  PRIVATE CITIZEN DOES INCLUDE ALL TYPES OF JUNK CALLS.  Indeed, a Congressional report recommends the use of Private Citizen's Do-Not-Call Directory.

Cut Junk Mail -  $10 Basic Annual Membership
We copy and send the `junk mail' portion of your Authorization to Congress and the eight largest list sales and junk mail firms named on it. One firm mails 350 million ads a week.  Another sells data on 90% of Americans. Our members also get access to a little known federal law that many call `The Ultimate Junk Mail Weapon '.  It requires any mailer of commercial ads that you object to, to stop mailing you: PERIOD!  

Most importantly, every new Private Citizen member adds another voice to promote effective privacy regulation on state and national levels.

We also publish 'So... You want to Sue a Telemarketer'; a book which contains (and explains) federal telemarketing laws and FCC regulations. It also reviews the broader (and more effective) legal framework which Private Citizen members use to stop the calls. It can be ordered by using our Membership Form

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What does the media say about Private Citizen?

ABC's PrimeTime Live:
"Private Citizen members have successfully stopped the annoying calls."   Click Here   Sam Donaldson  
The Wall Street Journal:   "[Private Citizen's] strategy is mischievous, ruthless, and surprisingly effective." 
"The telemarketing industry's worst nightmare."  
   USA Today:   "Seek the aid of... Private Citizen."  
Home Office Computing:
"By making a quick call to 800-CUT-JUNK you can slice most [telemarketing] interruptions out of your daily routine."
New York  Magazine:   "A tough mail-rejection service for people who can't stand being on mailing lists."  
National Public Radio:
"[Private Citizen's president] is a general in the army of Americans fed up with telemarketing."

The sooner we hear from you, the less you'll hear from them.
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We are America's foremost organization fighting the direct marketing industry's privacy-abusive practices.
    Click here for a partial list of media coverage Private Citizen continually receives.
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