SCOTUS: NoMoRobo

George K · 7 Jul 2020, 01:38

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/supreme-court-reaffirms-ban-on-robocalls-to-mobile-phones-070620.html

Now, if they could extend that to landlines/VOIP.

taiwan_girl · 7 Jul 2020, 01:39

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/supreme-court-reaffirms-ban-on-robocalls-to-mobile-phones-070620.html

Now, if they could extend that to landlines/VOIP.

Maybe I have miss read the "Telephone Consumer Protection Act" that was linked in teh article above, but it seems to include land lines. Not sure why the ruling does not cover it. Section (B) is what I am talking about.

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(b) RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF AUTOMATED TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT.—
(1) PROHIBITIONS.—It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States—

                 (A) to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice—
            (i) to any emergency telephone line (including any “911” line and any emergency line of a hospital, medical physician or service office, health care facility, poison control center, or fire protection or law enforcement agency);
           (ii) to the telephone line of any guest room or patient room of a hospital, health care facility, elderly home, or similar establishment; or
           (iii) to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;
 
      (B) **to initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by rule or order by the Commission under paragraph (2)(B);**

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George K · wrote on 7 Jul 2020, 01:42

Yeah, the landline thing is supposedly illegal.

That really hasn't worked out, has it? I probably get 4-5 calls per day from "Unknown Caller," "Out of Area," or some other crap like that.

I ignore them and let them go to voicemail. If there's no message, they're blocked.

	(A) to make any call (other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party) using any automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voice—
	(i) to any emergency telephone line (including any “911” line and any emergency line of a hospital, medical physician or service office, health care facility, poison control center, or fire protection or law enforcement agency);
	(ii) to the telephone line of any guest room or patient room of a hospital, health care facility, elderly home, or similar establishment; or
	(iii) to any telephone number assigned to a paging service, cellular telephone service, specialized mobile radio service, or other radio common carrier service, or any service for which the called party is charged for the call;

	(B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency purposes or is exempted by rule or order by the Commission under paragraph (2)(B);

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SCOTUS: NoMoRobo