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FCC Nixes PayPal's Forced Robocalls Plan

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:03AM from the don't-call-us,-we'll-call-you dept.

jfruh writes: As part of a new user agreement created in preparation for its spinoff from eBay as an independent company, PayPal told users that the only way to avoid advertising robocalls from PayPal and its 'partners' was to stop using the service. This caused something of a firestorm, and now the FCC is saying the policy may violate Federal law, which requires an explicit opt-in to receive such messages.

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Re:Lawyerly bullshit .. by Col.+Klink+(retired) · 2015-06-12 06:20 · Score: 4, Informative

RTFA: "FCC requirements ban requiring a customer to consent to receive autodialed or prerecorded telemarketing or advertising calls as a condition of a purchase..."

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Re:I would drop them like a fucking rock by Jiro · 2015-06-12 06:38 · Score: 4, Informative

That is not true. Paypal's language uses collection calls as an example, but is written in such a way that they can robocall you for any reason or no reason.