The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently adopted a proposal aimed at clarifying certain provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The proposal addresses twenty-one (21) petitions related to the TCPA, touching on issues from robocall-blocking services to treating text messages as calls. While the actual package of declaratory rulings has not yet been released,
Senators Urge FCC “Not to Weaken” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
A group of ten democratic senators led by Senator Edward Markey joined in a letter to the FCC urging it “not to weaken the privacy protections” contained in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) preventing most autodialing calls to landlines and mobile phones.
The senators specifically singled out proposals currently being considered by the FCC
Text Messaging Program Not an Autodialer Under the TCPA
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California recently held in the putative class action Glauser v. GroupMe, Inc. that GroupMe’s text messaging program was not an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Congress enacted the TCPA in 1991 in an effort to address a growing number of telephone marketing