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Previous Politech message: "Dept of Homeland Security wants to be, illegally... anonymous?" http://www.politechbot.com/p-04899.html --- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:09:43 -0700 From: "James J. Lippard" <lippard@discord.org> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: Re: FC: Dept of Homeland Security wants to be, illegally... anonymous? Yes, this violates the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 USC 227 for statute, 47 CFR 64.1200 for FCC regulations). The TCPA also prohibits pre-recorded advertisements to residences, and requires that pre-recorded calls contain identification information about the caller. George W. Bush's 2002 "get-out-the-vote" campaign for Republicans violated the TCPA with a pre-recorded call that did not meet the identification requirements of the law--one hundred million calls. (At the $500 minimum statutory damages for each violation, that's $50 billion in violations.) -- Jim Lippard lippard@discord.org http://www.discord.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xF8D42CFE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------