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6 Feb 2024, 8:29 am by Stewart Baker
The FCC will likely use the TCPA to declare the use of AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 8:10 am by Eric Fruits
  Does that mean the FCC has lost interest in data caps? [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 2:30 am by Edgar (aka MrConsumer)
Despite the FCC’s January 11 announcement of the end of the ACP program, Metro continued to run the commercials for their $20 internet service at least through January 26. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 7:30 am by Alysa Z. Hutnik
The FCC rule, once effective in January 2025, will be the stricter standard and apply nationally, at least as to those calls made by an ATDS, as defined under the TCPA. [read post]
2 Feb 2024, 5:29 am by Robert Kraft
This law allows the FCC to enforce penalties of up to $10,000 per call for intentional violations of telemarketing rules. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 9:05 pm by Brian Connor
FCC seeks comment on the text-blocking strategy, including how long the block should last. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 7:28 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today proposed that the FCC recognize calls made with AI-generated voices are “artificial” voices under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which would make voice cloning technology used in common robocalls scams targeting consumers illegal. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 12:20 pm by Jon Brodkin
The FCC said that AI-generated voices in robocalls have "escalated during the last few years" and have "the potential to confuse consumers with misinformation by imitating the voices of celebrities, political candidates, and close family members. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
In 2001, during the Bush administration, the FCC elected to classify broadband Internet access (at least that provided by a cable company) to be an “information service,” subject to Title I of the Federal Communications Act, a decision the Supreme Court upheld under Chevron in 2005.[8] After Barak Obama was elected in 2008, the FCC changed course, and after a series of attempts to apply a sub-species of common-carrier regulation to broadband access, the FCC… [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 1:56 pm by luiza
  The Alaska-based telecommunications provider agreed to pay roughly $40 million to settle charges it violated the False Claims Act by inflating its prices and violating Federal Communications Commission (FCC) competitive bidding regulations in connection with the company’s participation in the FCC’s Rural Health Care Program. [read post]
In addition, those SEUs with five or more full-time employees (“Nonexempt SEUs”) must also comply with the FCC’s three-prong outreach requirements. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 9:00 am by Alysa Z. Hutnik
As an update to our earlier blog post detailing the FCC’s recent order adopting new regulations pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the FCC has announced the rolling effective dates for the specific rule changes. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
 [Of course I'm intrigued by the reference to FDR and the FCC. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 4:54 pm by Christopher J. Walker
In more recent years, several prominent professors and professionals have participated in these symposia, including Stuart Benjamin (Duke), Cass Sunstein (Harvard), Chai Feldblum (former EEOC Commissioner), Steven Croley (Michigan), Julius Genachowski (former FCC Chairman), Paul Light (NYU), Nina Mendelson (Michigan), Anne Joseph O’Connell (Stanford), W. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 4:48 pm by Daphne Keller
The Supreme Court is about to review a constitutional challenge to two unprecedented and very complicated laws regulating social media. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 12:37 pm by Guest Author
FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington have written a defense of Texas’s law, HB20, which would require certain covered sites to treat user content on a “viewpoint-neutral” basis. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 7:02 am by Techdirt
Neither the FCC nor FTC has a particularly good track record of standing up to broadband and cable giants when it comes to their longstanding track record of anticompetitive behavior, price gouging, or nickel-and-diming their often captive customers with bogus, hidden fees. [read post]