Consumer Reports: Consumer Groups Take on Facebook at the U.S. Supreme Court to Stop Deluge of Robocalls
October 27, 2020
October 27, 2020
YONKERS, New York, Oct. 27 -- Consumer Reports issued the following news release:
Unwanted robocalls invade the privacy of Americans, diminish the usefulness of cell phones, and can threaten public safety. Yet Facebook wants the U.S. Supreme Court to so narrowly define prohibitions on calls made to cell phones with an automated telephone dialing system (an autodialer) that it would nullify Congress' efforts to protect consumers from unwanted autodialed calls, according to an amicus . . .
Unwanted robocalls invade the privacy of Americans, diminish the usefulness of cell phones, and can threaten public safety. Yet Facebook wants the U.S. Supreme Court to so narrowly define prohibitions on calls made to cell phones with an automated telephone dialing system (an autodialer) that it would nullify Congress' efforts to protect consumers from unwanted autodialed calls, according to an amicus . . .