Advocates say Commission must act to preserve and expand protections against unwanted, dangerous, or illegal text messages WASHINGTON – The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), along with sixteen other national and state consumer and privacy groups representing a broad swath of individual telephone subscribers across the United States,…
Americans were subjected to 5.2 billion robocalls last month–an increase by a remarkable 370% just since December 2015.2 This explosion of robocalls invades our privacy, distracts us, disrupts our lives, costs us money, and undermines the utility of the American telephony system. These problem robocalls are not just overt scams, such as calls made by…
This ex parte Notice is submitted to describe a meeting between Federal Communications Commission staff and consumer and privacy advocates on September 30, 2022.
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Letter to FCC re: Notice of Ex Parte Presentation, Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls EB Docket No. 17-59
Comments of Consumer Reports, National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of our low-income clients, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and Public Knowledge to the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls.
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This report explains the depth and reasons for scam robocall problem, and how the FCC has responded. We recommend several simple strategies that would stop most, if not all, of these fraudulent robocalls.
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