FCC to Weigh Telemarketer Database Amid Liability Shield Push

The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on creating a database for telemarketers to check before dialing.

The FCC’s planned Dec. 12 vote on the proposal comes amid uncertainty over the extent that businesses could be held accountable for inadvertently calling reassigned numbers. An appeals court earlier this year voided an FCC rule allowing companies to call one reassigned number before being held liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. The law restricts the use of autodialers in telemarketing.

Telecom trade groups have been pushing the agency without success to include language giving them legal immunity for mistakenly calling ...