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CGB Issues Guidance on Reassigned Numbers Database Safe Harbor

The FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau said Thursday that callers may be eligible for a safe harbor from Telephone Consumer Protection Act liability "when an authorized agent queries the [reassigned numbers] database on their behalf," said a public notice…

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in docket 17-59. The bureau said callers must provide proof that the "most recent version of the database was queried and it returned an erroneous response," and "be prepared to prove that it authorized the agent to query the database on its behalf prior to making the calls at issue."