On December 31, 2019, the most significant anti-robocall legislation in fourteen years was signed into law. The Pallone-Thune TRACED Act increases the penalties for transmitting illegal calls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), extends the FCC’s statute of limitations for bringing some enforcement actions and eliminates the requirement to give warnings before issuing certain filings. But most significantly, the TRACED Act requires all voice service providers to implement SHAKEN/STIR, a technical feature of telephone networks that will make it easier to identify the originators of illegal calls.
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