In the wake of an AI-generated robocall that featured a deepfake of President Biden’s voice, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously adopted a Declaratory Ruling confirming that calls that use cloned voices or other...more
As a reminder, on July 20, 2023, the following revisions, among others, will come into effect regarding the TCPA. One of the essential changes to the TCPA regulations is that residential telephone subscribers will now have...more
Reacting quickly to a joint request by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (collectively, the Health Agencies) last Thursday, the FCC released a Public...more
On July 28, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a public notice clarifying its prior guidance regarding the types of COVID-19-related communications that fall within the “emergency purposes” exception to...more
The FCC has issued a Public Notice seeking comments on the Technical Requirements for the Reassigned Numbers Database (RND) that it ordered to be created in 2018 in response to concerns that businesses had no way of ensuring...more
On October 3, 2018, the FCC issued a Public Notice to seek comment on what constitutes an “automatic telephone dialing system” (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in the wake of the Ninth Circuit’s Marks...more
As we get near Halloween, how about a quick tale of a phantom lurking in our halls? Amidst all of the hubbub surrounding the big Marks opinion a couple weeks back–including the FCC’s decision to re-open the comment period...more
Supplemental Public Notice on TCPA Scope Post Marks - Well the Marks case just got even bigger somehow. After the extreme position taken by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal two weeks ago the Federal Communications...more
As TCPAland residents know well by now, the decision in ACA Int’l has left courts searching for direction on how best to apply the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”) definition of automated telephone dialing system....more
“What is an autodialer?” The FCC wants to know what you think. For years, the question of what constitutes an autodialer has confounded courts, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and companies that call and text...more
Sometimes its what’s missing that says the most. The FCC’s Public Notice respecting the scope and architecture of the TCPA is notable for numerous reasons, as my Washington D.C. colleagues just explained yesterday....more
Comment Date: June 13, 2018 - Reply Comment Date: June 28, 2018 - As we told you in this week’s flash breaking news, less than a week after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its mandate following the ACA Int’l...more
On May 14, 2018, in the wake of the landmark decision ACA International v. FCC, 855 F.3d 687 (D.C. Cir. 2018), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a Public Notice seeking comment on a myriad of topics...more
Now that the dust has settled from the D.C. Circuit’s highly anticipated Telephone Consumer Protection Act decision in ACA International, et al, v. FCC, the Federal Communications Commission is going back to the drawing board...more