Wisconsin Attorney General Pushing for New Laws Regarding Robocalls
Friday, March 8th, 2019 -- 8:01 AM
(WRN) -Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is joining his colleagues across the country to push for a new law that would put a damper on robocalls.Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is joining the rest of his colleagues across the country to push for a new law that would put a damper on robocalls. Kaul says the TRACED act would direct telecommunications companies in the US to create a system to detect and stop spoofed calls, and to stop selling spoofed numbers to scammers.
"They would be required to implement this technology within I believe it's 18 months. So that's one of the good things about the legislation is that it puts a mandate in place."
He says scam calls and robo calls are consistently the biggest threat to consumers right now.
"That's why the required implementation of a call authentication framework is really important because it will reduce the likelihood consumers get these calls with spoofed area codes."
Kaul says the TRACED Act would require telecommunications companies to block or restrict access to phoney telemarketing outfits and to stop people from spoofing their caller ID.
"We need to reduce the number of these calls so that people don't have to worry that when they're answering their phone that it's likely to be a telemarketer or some robo-call or in the worst case a potential scam."
Similar legislation is up for consideration in the state legislature as well. The bill would also make it easier for law enforcement to prosecute the crooks running these outfits, even if they're based overseas. The bill would also allow law enforcement to use broader tools to track down and arrest people who are running phone scams, even overseas.
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