A coalition of consumer and privacy advocacy organizations told the FCC to protect consumers from unwanted and illegal calls and text messages.
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Groups call for en banc rehearing to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision to vacate the FCC's One-to-One Consent Rule.
Small business owners and consumer advocates have stepped up to save a popular anti-robocall rule ATLANTA — Yesterday, four small business owners and the National Consumers League asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for permission to intervene to request a rehearing after it issued a decision to overturn a Federal Communications…
Read More about After FCC Abandons Popular Telemarketing Rule, Consumers Take Action to Save It
Appearing in Marketplace on February 7, 2025, Janet Nguyen talks to NCLC senior attorney Margot Saunders about why consumers still receive unwanted telemarketing robocalls. The FCC bans spoofing with ill intent, but the agency only has so many resources to handle complaints. Telemarketers will claim they got consent to make their calls. But telemarketers often ask…
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Advocates raise alarms over a last-minute decision to vacate a regulation that would have eliminated a large number of unwanted telemarketing calls.
Technical Support Scams Cost Older Consumers $175M in Losses Last Year
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