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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In 1890, Louis Brandeis wrote a seminal law review article on privacy, defining it as “the right to be left alone.” In 1991, Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to reinforce that right. This month, the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the TCPA in a manner that will increase the number of calls and text messages that you receive hawking various goods and services. You will not be left alone. The TCPA, drafted before the invention of text messaging, prohibits the use of “autodialers” to make market...

Robocalls: All the rage Robocalls are the number one complaint to the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission. Pennsylvanians are some of the top targets. Author: Rachel Yonkunas (FOX43) Updated: 10:51 PM EDT May 9, 2021 HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania is among the top ten states in the nation for getting the most robocalls. It’s a problem everyone finds annoying and just won’t seem to go away.  Scammers are now using technology to find numbers of people or places you know and use those as caller ID. FOX43 Reveals why the phone won�...

She responded to a smishing scam. Then the spam texts got worse. Experts explain why. Kevin Collier © Provided by NBC News It took just a momentary lapse in judgment for Alyssa Beckwith to fall for the scam. The text message she received looked legitimate — even expected. After some of her personal information had already been stolen a few years ago, she signed up for text alerts from her bank, Wells Fargo, to confirm each time she made a new purchase. And that step to protect herself, ironically, is what made her such an easy target. So when a scammer texted Beckwith in A...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 1, 2021, the United States Supreme Court resolved a circuit split on what technology constitutes an “automatic telephone dialing system” (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq.  In the TCPA class action Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, et al., No. 19-511 (Apr. 1, 2021), the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that to qualify as an ATDS, “a device must have the capacity either to store a telephone number using a random or sequential generator or to produce a telephone number ...

Everyday people around the country and Bedford County, residents get many phone calls on their cellphones or land lines phones, but most of them are not from people they know. Many of these are unwanted calls, but by fraudulent callers who violate the state and federal do-not call lists in an attempt to scam consumers out of money or sending personal information. The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection receives thousands of complaints each year with respect to illegal calls, including scam calls, telemarketing complaints, and robocalls according to the...