Consumer Groups Explain Stance on Robocalls
Representatives of the National Consumer Law Center and Consumers Union pressed in a meeting with FCC officials from the Enforcement and Consumer and Governmental Affairs bureaus their proposal for a centralized system for evaluating call unblocking requests on robocalls. “The…
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party submitting an unblocking request should be required to verify that their caller ID information is accurate, to ensure that callers are not engaging in caller ID spoofing to evade blocks,” said a filing in docket 17-59. “If an unblocking system is established before caller ID authentication technology has been fully implemented, that an alternative means to confirm the accuracy of the caller ID information may be used.”