THE FEDERAL TRADE Commission recently adopted a new rule that will prohibit telemarketers from calling households with prerecorded messages – except in cases where consumers have given the caller ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The I-Team investigated a new tool being used to battle robo-calls and telemarketers that pester you. Robo-calls are the no. 1 complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, and is on the ...

About 100,000 voters from across California’s first congressional district received a startling phone message Sunday in which a female voice sighed seductively, “Mike Thompson’s been a bad boy.” The ...

If you've been getting a lot of automated political phone calls, you're not alone. Recorded political telephone calls now rival direct mail as the most popular way for campaigns and political groups ...

Some Chicago area residents received a robo call during their Thanksgiving dinner of the Rev. Jesse Jackson urging them to attend the Black Friday protests. The call, paid for by the Chicago Teachers ...

Rachel’s back, and this time, she’s brought her friends. Despite ongoing efforts by the Federal Trade Commission, complaints about robo-calls — from “Rachel from Card Services” and other automated ...

MIDDLETOWN — Councilman A.J. Smith wanted to make sure residents knew City Council voted to table a resolution on collective bargaining as he sent out an automated phone call to 10,000 residents ...

The office of Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler says a complaint about a Hagerstown robo call will be sent to the state’s prosecutor’s office. Washington County Democratic Central Committee ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America You’re in an important meeting with your boss and your cell phone rings. You answer ...