FC: Jim Lippard on Dept of Homeland Security's illegal faxspam

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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"Dept of Homeland Security wants to be, illegally... anonymous?"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04899.html

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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.)

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Jim Lippard        lippard () discord org       http://www.discord.org/
GPG Key ID: 0xF8D42CFE




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