FTC: No more robocalls beginning Sept. 1
WASHINGTON – Telemarketers beware: Beginning Sept. 1, “robocalls” are illegal.
A year after the Federal Trade Commission announced rules prohibiting prerecorded commercial telemarketing calls to consumers, it’s about to get serious and start fining violators up to $16,000 per call.
There are plenty exemptions. If the robocaller is delivering purely informational recordings – such as a notification of flight being canceled, for instance, that’s OK. So are calls from companies that consumers have agreed to take calls from (on opt-in agreements and elsewhere) as well as – of course – political campaign calls. See more on the new rule here.
Date: 08/30/2009
Categories: Federal, Hardware, Inside the Beltway, Inside the Valley, Software, States & municipalities, Uncategorized
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