FCC Should OK Exemption to TCPA for Fraud Alerts, ABA Says
The FCC can contribute to the "containment of data breaches by approving the use of automated texts and voice communications to give timely notice of those events," the American Bankers Association responded to an ex parte in docket 02-278. The…
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FCC should grant the association a petition for exemption under the 1991 Telephone Consumer Protection Act because the obstacles have been resolved, as shown in the ex parte letter from the National Consumer Law Center and National Association of Consumer Advocates, said ABA in the docket Friday. NCLC and NACA conceded that automated fraud alert and money transfer messages are appropriate and in consumers' interests and asked that those messages be subject to additional conditions intended to protect the privacy of consumers and avoid inconvenience to unintended recipients, it said.