[20190722]LSB10333_Robocall监管和司法审查.pdf

CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Robocall Regulation and Judicial Review July 22, 2019 Robocallscalls placed using an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded voicecontinue to be one of the most common consumer complaints received by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Generally, it is illegal under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to place robocalls to consumers without their consent. However, enforcement efforts have been complicated by technology that allows callers to falsify, or “spoof,” their caller ID information and adopt an area code or telephone number similar to that of the recipient. One method of combating robocalls with spoofed numbers involves deploying technology to verify the authenticity of caller ID information and to block calls made from numbers with unverified caller ID information. On June 7, 2019, the FCC published a declaratory ruling on the use of call-blocking technologies, including those that rely on caller ID authentication. The ruling set forth the FCCs position that telecommunications providers may provide call-blocking to consumers as a defa