FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls

Cara_Latham writes "If you want to receive annoying robocalls from telemarketers you will have to opt in. Federal Communications Commission rules now require that telemarketers get your consent before dialing your number. Telemarketers will also have to obtain consent even if they had previously 'done business with' the consumer on the receiving end of a call."

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[MrEricSir]

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Re:What about Slashdot comments?

[bratwiz]

Would be nice if they switch to the method Japan uses; receiving the message is free*, sending costs me.

But Dude! If they did that, it would cost the spammers money to send you all that crap! I mean-- Christ! It would just sink the entire business model. Just think of all those poor, spammers you'd be putting out-of-work. I mean, you know-- not making the victim pay-- that's just un-American! Say, what kind of sick, anti-capitalist, socialist-commie-freak are you anyway? I just bet this is Barack Obama's doing....

Re:Mobile phones

[danlock4]

At least your car doesn't ring with a robocall telling you your phone warranty is nearly expired... you're in the store and suddenly a voice on the store's intercom system announces your license plate number and says, "your car will be towed if you do not shut off its alarm within five minutes; it's been wreaking havoc in the lot for 20 minutes already!"

Re:more useless rules that they won't enforce

[Black Parrot]

The FCC didn't give a shit three years ago, when the car-warranty scammers were robo-calling every phone number, including cell phones. How many thousand complaints did they get over that one? No, the FCC didn't do jack until the robo-callers called a US senator. That got them shut down.

Thus proving that senators aren't entirely useless.