FSF's Cooper Says FCC Should Act on TCPA, Texting
Free State Foundation's Seth Cooper wants FCC clarity on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act: "Define prohibited ‘autodialers’ to mean equipment with current capacity to store or produce phone numbers using a random or sequential number generator and with capacity to…
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dial those numbers without human intervention,” Cooper wrote. “Such a rule would track the plain meaning of the TCPA and also avoid a wrongful harmful overextension of autodialer liability for smartphone owners.” The FCC should also consider a rule “clarifying that receipt of a single unsolicited text message from another smartphone-owning consumer does not, by itself, constitute a violation,” said the FSF policy studies director.