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FCC Approves New Pro-Consumer TCPA Rules That Will Likely Create Increased Compliance and Litigation Headaches for Businesses

By Grant A. Premo on June 29, 2015

Posted in Autodialer, TCPA

FCC Approves New Pro-Consumer TCPA Rules That Will Likely Create Increased Compliance and Litigation Headaches for Businesses 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

By Grant A. Premo on May 19, 2015

Posted in Autodialer, TCPA

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…