{"id":1172,"date":"2019-03-26T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2019\/03\/26\/lege-trend-robocalling-is-a-felony-under-this-bill-telecom-requirements\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:38:00","slug":"lege-trend-robocalling-is-a-felony-under-this-bill-telecom-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/lege-trend-robocalling-is-a-felony-under-this-bill-telecom-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Robocalling is a felony under this bill + telecom requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Know those calls to your mobile that look suspiciously like a number you know?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkleg.state.ar.us\/assembly\/2019\/2019R\/Pages\/BillInformation.aspx?measureno=sb514\">Arkansas SB 514 (2019 |AR)<\/a>\u00a0would change the penalty for those calls.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would increase the penalty for spoofing from a Class B misdemeanor to a Class D felony. That&#8217;s up to 6 years in prison &amp;\u00a0\u00a0a fine up to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom companies would have to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>implement preventative measures<\/li>\n<li>report yearly to the Arkansas Public Service Commission concerning steps taken to identify and block the robocall perpetrators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2019\/mar\/26\/bill-to-steepen-robocall-penalty-clears\/\">Arkansas Democrat Gazette |\u00a0Bill to steepen robocall penalty in Arkansas clears Senate, moves to House<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know those calls to your mobile that look suspiciously like a number you know?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkleg.state.ar.us\/assembly\/2019\/2019R\/Pages\/BillInformation.aspx?measureno=sb514\">Arkansas SB 514 (2019 |AR)<\/a>\u00a0would change the penalty for those calls.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would increase the penalty for spoofing from a Class B misdemeanor to a Class D felony. That&#8217;s up to 6 years in prison &amp;\u00a0\u00a0a fine up to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Telecom companies would have to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>implement preventative measures<\/li>\n<li>report yearly to the Arkansas Public Service Commission concerning steps taken to identify and block the robocall perpetrators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2019\/mar\/26\/bill-to-steepen-robocall-penalty-clears\/\">Ark\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,23,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-business-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-telecommunications","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}