Robocalls

PRESS RELEASE – Michigan Department of Attorney General: Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force Issues Warning Letters to Eight VoIP Providers 

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• Robocalls

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Yahoo! Finance: Calling All Consumers Who Are Fed Up with Unsolicited Communication 

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Consumer Privacy

• 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open internet protections rulemaking, a measure similar to the net neutrality rule adopted by the FCC in 2015 but later repealed during the Trump administration.

• Communications Privacy

• Competition and Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Location Tracking

• Robocalls

• Updates

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.

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

Reply Comments in Eighth FNPRM: Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• APA Comments

USA Today: ‘Stop scam calls:’ What the federal government is doing to halt illegal robocalls

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Robocalls

• News

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.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Robocalls

• Updates

NCLC Coalition Reply Comments on Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages (FNPRM)

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Robocalls

• APA Comments

EPIC, NCLC Urge FCC to Rein In Number Brokering to Better Combat Robocalls

EPIC and NCLC urged the FCC to expand its focus on caller ID authentication to include curtailing short-term rentals of phone numbers which can bypass caller ID authentication rules.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Robocalls

• Updates

In re: Call Authentication Trust Anchor (6th FNPRM)

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Robocalls

• APA Comments