The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in Montana has struck down a provision of state legislation prohibiting robocalls. The court decided robocalls for political campaigns, which was previously one of five categories of prohibited calls, can't be banned based on First Amendment infringement...

The term robocall has yet to be formally defined in any statute, and yet, everybody is setting out to get rid of them. Without a stable definition, it is impossible to tell whether the solutions to solve this problem are working. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Quicken Loans Government Affair...

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The Wall Street Journal reports telecommunication industry officials have discovered that small carriers are largely behind the mass amount of robocalls circulating around the U.S. Large telecoms have traced the robocalls back to their source, revealing the role of small carriers. Regulators are hav...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission wants to grant AT&T, Verizon and other telecom carriers the power to automatically turn on their anti-robocall technology instead of waiting for consumers to do it themselves, The Washington Post reports. Right now, a user must enable the features, some...