Chris Carr, attorney general of Georgia, has sided with a large coalition of attorneys general across the country. The group wants the Federal Communications Commission to take quicker action on illegal robocalls.
Attorney General Chris Carr urged the Federal Communications Commission to fight back against the scourge of illegal robocalls by moving up the deadline for smaller telephone companies to implement caller ID technology. Georgia joined a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general in submitting comments to the FCC.
“Given the prevalence of illegal robocalls and spoofing, we must all continue to implement commonsense measures to mitigate our citizens’ risk of scams and fraud,” Carr said in a news release.
Under the TRACED Act, which became law in 2019, phone companies are required to implement STIR/SHAKEN technology on their networks. This caller ID authentication technology helps ensure that telephone calls are originating from verified numbers, not spoofed sources. Large companies were required to implement the technology by June 2021, and smaller phone companies were given an extension until June 2023.
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