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Company Behind Billions of Robocalls Is Being Sued by Nearly Every State
Robocalls are a nuisance to everyone with a cell phone, and the national Do Not Call Registry is apparently no help. Justice may be served, however, as 49 attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against a company they accuse of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the Do Not Call Registry.
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FCC Is Ready to Block Calls From Telecoms That Ignore the Robocall Plague
We’ve all gotten the calls: IRS and insurance-themed scams beamed to your phone via spoofed numbers from your area code. On some days, the robocalls can feel endless — a tidal wave of spam barraging my back pocket. I’ve been known to leave my phone on perma-silent for days at a time because of the…
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Robocalls May Get Worse Soon, and You Can Blame Facebook
Rather than dole out what is, essentially — at least to one of the richest companies on the planet — a handful of spare change, Facebook set out to purposely undermine one of the most important legal protections Americans have against unwanted robocalls. Today it accomplished that mission.
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PayPal Kills Its Terrible Robocalling Policy
When PayPal updated its user agreement earlier this month, people were pissed off. The agreement left people with two options: Agree to receive robocalls from PayPal, or stop using the service. Now the company is back-pedalling on the whole “deal with our obnoxious, aggressive automatic calling or GTFO” policy.