The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a new notice of proposed rulemaking that would impose new requirements for autodialed marketing calls and texts that use artificial intelligence (AI) to generate...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted two notices of apparent liability, proposing fines of $6 million against a political consultant who sent spoofed calls with a deepfake of President Joe Biden’s voice...more
In a unanimous, bipartisan decision, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a declaratory ruling to confirm that artificial intelligence-generated voices are “artificial” under the Telephone Consumer...more
Marketers that solicit sales or advertise products or services using “robocalls” or “robotexts” (i.e., calls or texts that are initiated using an “automatic telephone dialing system” or voice calls made using an artificial or...more
In a widely anticipated decision in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, the US Supreme Court determined that an exception to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that allowed robocalls to mobile...more
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The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission sent joint letters to three companies that provide voice over IP "gateway" service, which is used to connect voice over IP calls to the US telephone network....more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FCC has issued a narrow order exempting healthcare providers and certain government entities from the prohibitions on autodialed and prerecorded telephone calls and automated text...more
On December 30, President Donald Trump signed new legislation aimed at addressing illegal robocalls and, particularly, scam calls. The legislation passed the US House and Senate by overwhelming bipartisan votes earlier in...more