Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

internetworkers - Re: Automated phone dialers-- how to fight back?

internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Automated phone dialers-- how to fight back?
  • Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 01:55:38 -0400


>
> I found a reference. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
> (TCPA)
>
> http://www.junkfaxes.org/federal_law.htm
>
> I copied some of the law below and supposedly a suit can be filed in
> state court, but there are some exemptions and I am not a lawyer, so of
> course all bets are off until a professional gives you advice :) But,
> it does seem automated dialing to cellphones is not allowed and
> unsolicited commercial faxes are not allowed.
>
> Bill

Awesome!

....And a bill currently in the house attempts to ban spam to wireless devices
(HR 113):

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:hr113:

The summary: "Wireless Telephone Spam Protection Act - Amends the
Communications Act of 1934 to make it unlawful for any person to use any
covered mobile telephone messaging system to transmit an unsolicited
advertisement. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from exempting
from certain telephone regulatory requirements any call that violates such
prohibition. "

-- Mike, also not a lawyer.






Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page