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Cyberscoop: FCC moves to tighten industry reporting rules for robocalls
January 9, 2025
Robocalling continues to be a scourge on American society. According to a 2022 report from the National Consumer Law Center and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Americans received more than 21 billion robocalls in 2021.
In an interview last month, Rosenworcel, the outgoing FCC chair, told CyberScoop that the frequency of robocalling has actually gotten worse since then, as a 2021 Supreme Court decision adopted a definition for autodialing that essentially “froze the definition of the technology in 1991.” She pushed for Congress to update that authority for modern telecommunications technology and give the agency the authority to take bad actors to court to enforce their mandates.
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