Democrats and Republicans can agree on at least one thing : The junk e-mail robocall situation has gotten exclusively out of hired man .
Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey , a Democrat , and Senator John Thune , a South Dakota Republican , introduced a note on Friday that take aim to ramp up the penalties on illegal robocalls — and stop them from reaching your earphone in the first spot .
TheTelephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence ( TRACED ) Act , raises the penalization for robocalls from $ 1,500 per call to up to $ 10,000 per call , and allows the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to take military action on illegal robocalls up to three year after the calls are placed , instead of a year .
The Act also shoot for to press the FCC to bring along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , Department of Justice , Department of Homeland Security , Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) , and other agencies to provide information to Congress about advancements in hindering robocall and prosecuting chiseler .
Perhaps most importantly for us extremely annoyed Americans , the bill would also force phone service providers to use call authentication that strain out illegitimate calls before they go through to consumers .
Thune explain in astatementthat current regulations are unequal because were made for “ true telemarketers ” that mess up up . “ This enforcement regimen is totally inadequate for scam artists and we need do more to separate enforcement of carelessness and other mistakes from more forbidding actors , ” Thune bring .
One company that monitors robocalls and provides a blocking military service , YouMail , estimatesthat 5.1 billion robocalls were made to U.S. headphone just last month .
“ As the terror of spoofed telephone call and robocalls reaches epidemic levels , the bipartisan TRACED Act will cater every person with a phone much - necessitate relief , ” Markey said in astatement . “ It ’s a simple recipe : call authentication , block , and enforcement , and this broadsheet achieve all three . ”
[ U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce , Science , and DoT ]
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