Telephone Consumer Privacy Rights Act

Summary

Telephone Consumer Privacy Rights Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prescribe regulations: (1) requiring any caller identification service offered by or through a common carrier to allow the caller to withhold the display of the caller's telephone number to the individual receiving the call; (2) prohibiting any charges from being imposed for such service; and (3) requiring every common carrier to notify subscribers that their calls may be identified to a called party (not later than 30 days before offering a call identification service or, if the private or common carrier is already offering such service, within 60 days). Exempts from such requirements any caller identification service which is: (1) used solely in connection with calls within the same limited system as the recipient telephone; (2) used on a public agency's emergency telephone line or on the line which receives the primary emergency telephone number (911); and (3) provided in connection with legally authorized call tracing or trapping procedures specifically requested by a law enforcement agency. Authorizes the waiver of such requirements where compliance is not technologically feasible. Requires any common carrier or affiliate providing automatic number identification (ANI) services to any person to provide such services under a contract or tariff containing customer information requirements that: (1) permit such person to use the telephone number and billing information provided for billing and collection, completion of the customer's call or transaction, or for services directly related to the customer's call or transaction; (2) prohibit such person from reusing or selling the telephone number or billing information provided without the customer's consent; and (3) prohibit such person from disclosing, without the customer's consent, any information derived from such service or from the analysis of the characteristics of a telecommunications transmission (such as calling patterns and locations, transmission speeds, and transaction profiles) for any purpose other than performing the services or transactions that are the subject of the customer's call, ensuring network performance, security, and the effectiveness of call delivery, compiling, using, and disclosing aggregate information, and complying with applicable law or legal process. Makes an exception to allow such person to offer to any current customer a product or service that is directly related to the products or services previously acquired by that customer. Requires each common carrier to: (1) receive and transmit to the FCC customer complaints concerning violations of customer information requirements imposed under this Act; and (2) submit to the FCC periodic reports on actions taken to obtain compliance with such requirements. Authorizes the FCC to direct the termination of ANI services to any person who has violated such customer information requirements.

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN

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• Introduced in House (text)

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 18 November 1991

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 6 March 1991

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