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Webinar Recap: What You Need to Know About America’s Most Dangerous Statute Moving into 2022

Yesterday, Contact Center Compliance conducted our first Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) webinar of the year, hosted by CCC’s Director of Compliance Services, Arvell Craig. As usual, our guest was Eric Troutman, the Czar of TCPAWorld.

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Serial Plaintiff Scores Multiple TCPA Penalties Per Call

Andrew Perrong is an infamous Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff and his latest court victory illustrates one of the less understood dangers of the TCPA: the fact that each call may violate multiple TCPA provisions and thus be assessed multiple penalties on each call.

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District Court Rejects Argument That Text Messages Are Prerecorded Voice

A district court in California rejected a plaintiff’s argument in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit that tried to establish a new avenue for text message claims. The court granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss, noting that the plaintiff’s claims that text messages constitute “prerecorded voice” messages flatly contradicts both the common sense and dictionary definitions of “voice.”

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30 Years of the TCPA

Today is the 30 year anniversary of President George H.W. Bush signing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) into law. It is fitting that this anniversary is somewhat overlooked as, for the first two decades of its existence, the TCPA served its intended, modest purpose as a statute allowing individual consumers to bring lawsuits in small claims court.

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Wrong Numbers Are a TCPA Risk

Wrong numbers sometimes take a backseat to reassigned numbers when discussing Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) risks. But they represent a similar sort of risk without counterbalancing features like the Reassigned Numbers Database (RND) and its associated safe harbor. Understanding why wrong numbers serve as a source of TCPA risk and implementing measures to mitigate that risk are essential parts of TCPA compliance.