Mississippi Makes Caller ID Spoofing Illegal

marklyon writes "HB 872, recently signed into law by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, makes Caller ID spoofing illegal. The law covers alterations to the caller's name, telephone number, or name and telephone number that is shown to a recipient of a call or otherwise presented to the network. The law applies to PSTN, wireless and VoIP calls. Penalties for each violation can be up to $1,000 and one year in jail. Blocking of caller identification information is still permitted."

Comments

Re:Not a bad idea... in fact, an obvious good idea

[Lunix Nutcase]

Telcos should enforce it on their own.

Yeah and corporations should do all sorts of things they don't do. Which is why the government has to step in to make them do it.

Re:Collection Company's

[h4rr4r]

Simple, those jobs will be leaving that state!