The state of new York wants to introduce a law banning the use of robotic automatic call-up. Everyone who will use the technology of auto-dialing to connection with the new Yorker for commercial purposes without prior permission of that person risks being fined up to $2,000 per call.
The bill also requires phone companies have made a call blocking technology free of charge to consumers.
«The robotic calls are the scourge of our modern society, and if the new Yorkers was the movie of our lives, they would be the soundtrack to it,» said state Senator brad Holyman (D-Manhattan), who is promoting the bill, the journalists of the NY Post.
He said that it is regularly receiving a number of complaints about annoying automobike.
There isn’t an issue I hear about from constituents more than the proliferation of robocalls. These calls aren’t just annoying—they’re dangerous, and often used to defraud seniors and immigrants.
We’re going to put a stop to them in NY with my new bill.https://t.co/1f2Vft5lkz
— Senator Brad Hoylman (@bradhoylman) March 27, 2019
Often these calls are used for marketing, to sell a product to a larger number of buyers. But some people use these calls in a fraudulent manner, saying that a person has problems with the card and the sensitive data they need to unlock it, or that you have won a free vacation.
Often in these schemes, the robots targeted at specific groups of individuals, selecting them according to age or ethnicity.
Member of the state Assembly Yu Online Niu, which also strongly supports the bill, said that many Chinese-American residents in Manhattan were victims of a Scam that warned them in their native language about possible problems with American visas.
«We need to ban automatic call. Thanks to the Senator for his work on this issue. People really suffer from these calls,» — said on Twitter Yu-Line Niu.
Later a Democrat, posted a screen with numerous calls from subscribers using the robocall signed: «And this is just my phone.»
Just my phone alone. pic.twitter.com/h0oSMoCS09
— Yuh-Line Niou (@yuhline) March 26, 2019
Stuart Discount, CEO of the Professional Association for interaction with consumers (Professional Association for Consumer Engagement), said that laws and penalties is unlikely to deter scammers from annoying calls.
«Regardless of what will take new York, they do not stop these calls», — he stressed.
Discount said that the legal telemarketi also want to abandon the automated calls because many Americans stopped answering unknown numbers.
Not without exceptions to the rules. Under the bill, political automated calls will remain as they do not pursue commercial goals.
