May 28, 2019

US Senate passes anti-robocalling bill

The TRACED Act was a slam dunk in the Senate, where it passed with an overwhelming 97-1 vote.

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May 20, 2019

Bots rigged Russian finale of ‘The Voice Kids’ talent show

It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in vote for the millionaire's daughter.

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March 12, 2019

John Oliver bombards the FCC with anti-robocall robocall campaign

The Last Week Tonight host launched an anti-robocalling robocalling campaign to force the FCC to put a stop to the pervasive, irritating calls.

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November 08, 2018

Phone companies slammed for lousy robocall efforts

By this time next year, says Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC wants to see an anti-robocall system on consumers' phones - or else.

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October 12, 2018

35 state attorneys general tell FCC to pull the plug on robocalls

The AGs want the FCC to adopt SHAKEN and STIR.

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September 28, 2018

Robocallers slapped with huge fines for using spoofed phone numbers

One poor woman whose phone number was hijacked by robocallers got several calls a day from irate consumers who thought she was trying to market to them.

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July 12, 2018

Your Google phone will soon screen nuisance calls

Google is reportedly adding a new feature to its phone app that will please phone users - built-in screening for nuisance callers.

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April 20, 2018

Kingpin who made 100 million robocalls loses his voice

The man behind a cacophony of robocalls had little to say for himself on Capitol Hill

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November 20, 2017

FCC: robocalls can go get BLOCKED

But, it could come at a price

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