WASHINGTON: Last week, Harry Potter met his match. And the tweener wizard could not have been thwarted by a more unlikely force: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The FTC last week unveiled Donotcall.gov, a website that enables Americans to block nearly all unsolicited commercial phone calls to their home numbers for five years. The FTC also set up a toll-free number for the same purpose.
According to web search engine Lycos, "do not call" was by far its most commonly searched term ...