Consumer Protection
In recent years, ILD has accelerated efforts (unsuccessfully) to protect consumers from unauthorized charges on their telephone bills. The company has launched several initiatives designed to strengthen the security protocols of its service offering and inform consumers on alternative payment methods and ways to avoid unauthorized billing. These include:
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Famous quotes containing the words consumer and/or protection:
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
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—Gwen Morgan (20th century)