Message-ID: <20210819232928.40BD37FF@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 23:29:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Ninth Circuit Holds TCPA Prohibits Pre-Recorded Recruiting
Calls To Cell Phones Without Prior Express Consent
by Rod M. Fliegel (San Francisco) , William Simmons (Philadelphia),
Zoe Argento (Denver), Julie Stockton (San Francisco) and
Garrick Y. Chan (San Francisco)
Staffing companies and employers using all tools at their disposal to
recruit workers may face increased risk following the Ninth Circuit's
recent opinion in Loyhayem v. Fraser Financial. In Loyhayem, the court
found that calling potential workers' cell phones with pre-recorded
voice messages could violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
(TCPA), unless the workers had previously consented to the calls. In
light of Loyhayem, "cold-calling" prospects using this method may
subject companies to class actions carrying risk of substantial
statutory damages.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/advertising-marketing-branding/1102038/ninth-circuit-holds-tcpa-prohibits-pre-recorded-recruiting-calls-to-cell-phones-without-prior-express-consent?email_access=on
Message-ID: <20210820174458.GA5628@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:44:58 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQassRimiMlation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PIN Code to Reach
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:05:33AM -0400, David wrote:
> True. But GV can ring up to 6 numbers simultaneously plus VOIP apps.
Sorry, I didn't write very clearly.
The point I was trying to make is that Google Voice can't stop
robocalls which are randomly dialed: it only works to screen calls
made to numbers that Sleezeoids have purchased from database vendors.
Bill
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Message-ID: <de29a37e-44fb-01c1-2cbb-f4e77056ab99@panix.com>
Date: 20 Aug 2021 10:05:33 -0400
From: "David" <wb8foz@panix.com>
Subject: Re: PIN Code to Reach
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> I have a friend who uses Google Voice to screen his calls: whenever I
> call him, GV asks me to state my name and then promises to try and
> find him. I don't know what's involved or what it costs.
It's free, as is all GV domestic use.
You get prompted if you are not in his Contacts list.
If you are, he gets a robovoice with your name.
> I assume that if I knew his actual cell phone number, I could bypass
> Google Voice, but it's better than nothing.
True. But GV can ring up to 6 numbers simultaneously plus VOIP apps.
Also note Callcentric offers Telemarketer Block. The caller gets
prompted to "Dial 'n' to connect" when n is a random 0-9; 99.999% of the
telesleeze do not. Again, a phonebook entry bypasses it. Users seem to
love it.
Message-ID: <20210821035405.GA8160@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 04:20:21 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQassimRilatMion@gmail.com>
Subject: The Telecom Digest is Forty Years Old!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TELECOM DIGEST!
This publication was founded on August 21, 1981, and that makes it
forty years old today.
I'm sending this out after Midnight, so that it will appear in
reader's inboxes, on Usenet, and in the "Digest" version of the
Telecom Digest all on the same date, no matter how our publication
gets to you.
As a technician at New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., I helped to
install the first "High Speed" ananlog lines between the Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T., and Bolt Beranek and Newman, the
first Internet Service PRovider. I feel I'm entitled to say that I was
"Present at the Creation" of the Internet as we came to know it, and I
worked in Panel, #1 Crossbar, #5 Crossbar, and ESS offices, along with
"T" carrier equipments from the "D1" to the "D4" banks, and on L5
Carrier, Microwave, IMTS Mobile, and Ship-To-Shore radio systems: I
welcome comments and remembrances from others who worked on the
earlier software, hardware, and protocols which made today's telephone
and Internet networks possible.
On this special day, let's hear from all the old hands about the
Digest's past, what you think the future holds, and thoughts about how
we'll get there.
I look forward to the years to come. I've been the Moderator here
since 2007, and with any luck, I'll make it to the Digest's 50th.
Bill
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Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)
"I've been aware of the time going by
they say in the end it's the wink of an eye"
(Jackson Browne, "The Pretender")
