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EPIC, NCLC Urge FCC to Prohibit Misuse of Numbers and to Audit in Search of Bad Actors
EPIC and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), filed an ex parte letter following up on a March 21, 2024 meeting with the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau regarding misuse of numbering resources.
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Consumer Privacy
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Robocalls
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FTC Adopts Recommendation by EPIC & NCLC-Led Coalition to Ensure Sellers Don’t Evade Recordkeeping Responsibilities
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Consumer Privacy
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Robocalls
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EPIC Joins NCLC Coalition Comments to FCC on Scam Texts
The coalition urged the FCC to create meaningful financial incentives that motivate text platforms to curtail transmitting scam texts and to encourage legitimate mass texters such as banks to insist that their mass text service providers not transmit scam texts.
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Consumer Privacy
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Robocalls
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EPIC and NCLC Urge Ninth Circuit to Protect Consumers from Unwanted MMS Video Messages
The brief argues that the restriction on artificial and prerecorded voice messages in the TCPA extends to all types of calls, including MMS message, and that artificial or prerecorded voice messages sent via MMS, particularly those generated with AI, pose a genuine threat to phone users.
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Consumer Privacy
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EPIC Joins NCLC Coalition Reply Comments on Rented Numbers
The National Consumer Law Center—joined by EPIC and five other consumer advocacy organizations—submitted reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission urging the FCC to take unambiguous action to address providers who help bad actors circumvent Caller ID protections when they rent telephone numbers to robocallers on a temporary basis.
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Consumer Privacy
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EPIC-Led Coalition Applauds FCC Classifying ISPs as Common Carriers, Urges Immediate Privacy Rulemaking
EPIC, Public Knowledge, Consumer Federation of America, and Demand Progress Education Fund submitted comments to the FCC applauding the agency's proposal to re-classify broadband providers as common carriers subject to Title II of the Communications Act.
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Communications Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Location Tracking
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Robocalls
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Social Media Privacy
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EPIC, Consumer Action Urge FCC to More Aggressively Prevent Misuse of Phone Numbers
EPIC and Consumer Action today urged the Federal Communications Commission to more aggressively regulate the companies that resell phone numbers, as bad actor callers can bypass anti-spam call protections by constantly and rapidly changing what numbers they call from.
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Consumer Privacy
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Robocalls
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FCC Advances Net Neutrality Rulemaking, Raising Prospect of Stricter Privacy Rules for ISPs
The Federal Communications Commissions voted to move forward with its open internet protections rulemaking, a measure similar to the net neutrality rule adopted by the FCC in 2015 but later repealed during the Trump administration.
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Communications Privacy
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Competition and Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Robocalls
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EPIC, NCLC, Public Knowledge Urge FCC to Help Legal Callers Escape from Illegal Call Traffic
Consumers would benefit because the calls they want to receive (e.g., appointment reminders) would be less likely to be mistakenly labelled or blocked; legal callers would benefit by having more of their calls go through successfully.
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Consumer Privacy
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Robocalls
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EPIC Joins NCLC Coalition Reply Comments on Robotexts and Online Consents
EPIC joined NCLC's coalition comments urging the FCC not to proceed with its proposed modified rules and instead enforce the stronger, existing rules regarding consent to receive texts and prerecorded telemarketing calls.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Robocalls
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