- Jared Hartman, Esq.
- Posted on December 16, 2013
The acronym TCPA stands for the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and is codified at 47 U.S.C. S 227. Congress enacted this law in 1991 with the intention of protecting individuals’ privacy rights, because of the spike in complaints from consumers about unwanted and unrelenting phone calls. In the Legislative Intent and Purpose of the TCPA, Congress found that unwanted automated calls were a “nuisance and an invasion of privacy, regardless of the type of call”. Banning these unwanted calls was “the only effective means of protecting telephone consumers from this nuisance and privacy invasion”.
One member of Congress made the following statements when discussing the need to pass the TCPA, “Computer telephone calls are invading our homes and destroying our privacy”. Consumers around the country are crying out for Congress to put a stop to these computerized telephone calls. Congress has a clear opportunity to protect the interests of our citizens, and we should not pass up this chance.
Computerized telephone calls are the scourge of modern civilization. They wake us up in the morning; they interrupt our dinner at night; they force the sick and elderly out of bed; they hound us until we want to rip the telephone right out of the wall. These machines are out of control, and their use is growing by 30% every year. It is telephone terrorism, and it has got to stop.