SACRAMENTO -- — In California, where celebrities, billionaires and the rest of us prize a little privacy at home, the price of going unlisted is going up, big-time. Though cellphone companies charge ...

SACRAMENTO — California’s four biggest telephone companies Tuesday couldn’t convince a key legislative committee that they should be allowed to charge consumers for unlisted numbers. Members of the ...

A state appeals court upheld California's 2006 deregulation of rates for unlisted telephone numbers Tuesday and said the market, not the judiciary, determines whether customers are being overcharged.

The question occurs: What will happen if I cancel Verizon’s “Non-Published Service,” which for a ridiculously unjustifiable fee of $5.25 a month keeps my landline unlisted and my time at home almost ...

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Hey, Watchdog. I have a question about privacy. Go ahead. It seems like every week I get a letter in the mail from some company I’ve never heard of informing me that my personal information has been ...

Comcast mistakenly published the names, phone numbers, and addresses of nearly 200,000 customers who paid monthly fees to make their numbers unlisted. The names and numbers were made available on ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Gary, Our management assures me that WRAL and WeatherCall will not provide your number to anyone else and it will only be used for the delivery of warnings and possibly for advising ...

Emily Bengali shot a 43 to lead Rochester Mayo to a victory over Rochester John Marshall in a girls golf dual meet at Northern Hills Golf Course. In a first for the Rochester Mayo girls track team, ...

THE people who are listed in the telephone directory — and don’t misunderstand me, they’re the backbone of the nation — resent the people whose numbers are not listed. Reticence about one’s telephone ...