President Donald Trump on Monday signed into law a bill that aims to curb plaguy junk e-mail robocalls that have saturated our recent - call lists over the past few years . And it might help ! At the very least , it will make us feel like someone is trying to do something about this stern mess .
The bipartisan Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence ( TRACED ) Act , first introducedin November 2018 , increase fines on junk e-mail robocallers from $ 1,500 to as much as $ 10,000 per illegal call and otherwise instructs the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on robocallers . Crucially , the jurisprudence also aims to hasten the rollout ofcall - authentication technologyby telecommunication fellowship that blocks calls made with spoofed number — the one part of this law that stands a substantial chance of making a departure .
“ This historic legislation will provide American consumer with even slap-up trade protection against nettlesome unsolicited robocalls , ” the White House say in a statement late Monday . “ American families deserve control over their communication , and this lawmaking will update our police force and regulations to stiffen penalization , increase transparence , and heighten government coaction to stop undesirable solicitation . ”
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musical passage of the TRACED Act followsan FCC votein June to allow carriers to block robocalls automatically ( which voice capital , but it tender no guaranty that your phone company will put up the service for free ) . It also comes amid the rise of anti - robocall apps by companies like Nomorobo , Hiya , and YouMail that also help weed out spam song on smartphones .
Americans conjointly take in more than26 billionspam robocalls in 2018 , concord to Hiya ’s count . Data compiled by YouMail — which also distribute its name by offer diary keeper with information about robocalls — bear witness that the problem has beeneven worsein 2019 . So , will the TRACED Act do , you know , anything ?
Well … possibly ? As far as the $ 10,000 - per - robocall fines go , probably not . Of the $ 208.4 million in fines the FCC impose against illegal robocallers and telemarketers between 2015 and March of this year , the agency reportedly only collected , uh , less than$7,000 . Meanwhile , the Federal Trade Commission , which go the interior Do Not Call Registry , has pull together $ 121 million of the $ 1.5 billion in civil penalty levied against Do Not Call violators since 2004 , the Wall Street Journalreports .
So we must bank our dream of continuous peace on wireless carriers implementing that call - assay-mark tech and pray that it will actually work . In the meantime , we ’ll continue tojust never suffice the phone .
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