[VoiceOps] Truth in CallerID act of 2010

[nick hatch]

I'm not sure if it was clear from the original post, but HR 1258 has been
passed by the House.

I found this analysis helpful:
http://blog.cloudvox.com/post/523641421/what-the-truth-in-caller-id-act-hr-1258-means

-Nick

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:00 PM, David Hiers <hiersd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Near as I can tell... As long as the "intent to defraud, etc"
> exclusion is in there, pretty much nothing changes.  You pretty much
> have to be trying to break another law (fraud, harm, etc) to get
> busted on this one.  This just gives them one more arrow to shoot at
> the fraudster, and it'll even stick in an unsuccessful one at that!
>
> You can still mislead as much as you like if you are doing out of
> humor or laziness.
>
> Carriers are pretty much indemnified from almost everything; we can't
> have those billionaires actually responsible for anything, now can we?
>
> Still gotta get counsel's read on this one, of course.
>
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:24 PM, anorexicpoodle
> <anorexicpoodle at gmail.com> wrote:
> > While it hasn't been signed into law yet seems like its worth opening up
> a
> > discussion on the topic since its something we all deal with.
> >
> >
> http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1258rh.txt.pdf
> >
> > The first questions that come to mind are:
> >
> > Where does the liability lie in a termination/wholesale situation where
> the
> > termination carrier doesn't own the numbers terminating calls through
> their
> > network?
> >
> > How does this impact services like SkypeOut or similar that mask all
> calls
> > with a common number?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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