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USA: EPIC submits amicus to Supreme Court, urges broader interpretation of automatic telephone dialling systems under TCPA
The Electronic Privacy Information Center ('EPIC') filed, on 23 October 2020, an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, urging the Court to affirm the judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which broadly defines automatic telephone dialling systems under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ('TCPA') and ensures telemarketers cannot robocall consumers without consent. In particular, the amicus brief notes, among other things, that a narrower autodialer definition would remove important TCPA protections against technologies most commonly used by robocallers to automatically dial and deliver unwanted calls, which would be inconsistent with the U.S. Congress' intent in the TCPA.
You can read the press release here and the amicus brief here.