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AT&T says the hourslong outage to its U.S. cellphone network appeared to be the result of a technical error, not a malicious attack.
The unanimous ruling targets robocalls made with AI voice-cloning tools under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Depending on your individual cellphone settings, the message may display in Spanish.
Brendan Carr tweeted that the app “harvests swaths” of data that’s accessible to China.
The late Martha Wright-Reed became a phone justice activist after having to choose between paying for her medication and speaking with her grandson.
Stations in Philadelphia, New York City and Cleveland have pulled the show to avoid “equal time” rules that give rival candidates the ability to request matching air time.
Brendan Carr didn’t mention this as he bolstered the GOP leader’s dubious claim that it would be illegal for telecom companies to preserve call records.
The pair face felony charges for orchestrating thousands of robocalls in Black neighborhoods that discouraged mail-in voting during the 2020 election.
Of the 22 million comments submitted during the public comment period, around 18 million were not genuine, a state attorney general's office says.
The new version of the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which connects callers to a network of crisis centers, will go into effect in 2022.