{"id":194746,"date":"2008-08-21T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/21\/ftc-institutes-new-regs-requiring-written-opt-in-for-robo-calls\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T00:45:00","slug":"ftc-institutes-new-regs-requiring-written-opt-in-for-robo-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/21\/ftc-institutes-new-regs-requiring-written-opt-in-for-robo-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Institutes New Regs Requiring Written Opt-In for Robo-Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, of course, will <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-10021092-38.html?hhTest=1&amp;tag=nl.e433\">effectively kill the odoriferous putrescence that is robo-calls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By December, all Robocalls must have a key or voice activated opt-out, and by the following September, robo-calls are prohibited, unless the marketer has &#8220;the prior express written agreement of the recipient to receive such calls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior business relationships have been eliminated as an exception, though medical calls related to HIPAA, and calls by non-profits to members have an exception, though the latter requires automated opt-out.<\/p>\n<p>Note that political campaigns can <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">still<\/span> inundate you with robo-calls though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, of course, will effectively kill the odoriferous putrescence that is robo-calls. By December, all Robocalls must have a key or voice activated opt-out, and by the following September, robo-calls are prohibited, unless the marketer has &#8220;the prior express written agreement of the recipient to receive such calls.&#8221; Prior business relationships have been eliminated as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}