Stuart N. Brotman is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He is based in its Science and Technology Innovation Program, focusing on digital privacy policy issues.
In late January, the Department of Justice filed lawsuits seeking temporary restraining orders against five companies and three individuals, based on allegations that they had carried hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls to American consumers. Within days, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent letters to 19 Voice over Internet Protocol providers to warn them that any assistance or facilitation of telemarketing through robocalls would be deemed to violate the new law.
