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Advocates Meet With FCC to Urge Meaningful Changes to Rules Governing Providers of Telecom Service to Criminal Enterprises

February 8, 2022

February 8, 2022 WASHINGTON – Today, the National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of its low income clients, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Consumer Reports, National Consumers League, Public Knowledge, UnidosUS and U.S. PIRG, met with staff of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to insist that more effective measures be deployed to stop telephone service providers…

NCLC, EPIC Urge FCC to Hold Voice Service Providers Accountable for Transmitting Illegal Robocalls

January 11, 2022

January 11, 2022 Groups urge FCC to limit the damage that gateway providers cause by allowing illegal robocall and scam calls to proliferate on their networks. WASHINGTON — The Electronic Privacy Information Privacy Center and the National Consumer Law Center filed comments Monday in response to a Notice of Proposed Further Rulemaking issued by the…

Consumer and Privacy Advocates Push FCC to Require VoIP Providers to Be Vigilant Against Illegal Robocallers

October 15, 2021

October 15, 2021 On Thursday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) on behalf of its low-income clients, submitted comprehensive comments urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to significantly increase the accountability of VoIP providers who allow robocallers to access the American telephony system. The proceeding, required by Section…

Supreme Court Deals Blow to Protections Against Robocalls; Advocates Urge Congress to Act to Prevent a Tsunami of Unwanted Calls and Texts to Cellphones

April 1, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2021 Washington, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court issued an opinion that nullifies one of the most important protections against unwanted robocalls: the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s prohibition against autodialed calls and texts to cellphones without the called party’s consent. In Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, the Court interpreted the statute’s…

Telecom Carrier and Consumer Groups Stress Critical Need to Maintain Landmark Consumer Privacy Law to Protect Integrity of Communications System and Curb Robocalls in U.S. Supreme Court Case

March 3, 2020

Washington, D.C. – The National Consumer Law Center, the Consumer Federation of America and Verizon filed a joint amicus brief in Barr v American Association of Political Consultants, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in which a group of robocallers is challenging the constitutionality of a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA),…

Bipartisan TRACED Act Signed Into Law, Latest Tool in Fight Against the Robocall Epidemic

December 30, 2019

FCC must now move aggressively to provide critical relief for consumers Washington, D.C. – Today, the bipartisan Pallone-Thune TRACED Act was signed into law in an important step forward to provide Americans some relief from the plague of robocalls. The final bill, passed overwhelming by the U.S. House last month, includes elements from the bills…

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