{"id":618,"date":"2007-08-23T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2007\/08\/caller-id-spoofing-to-be-made-illegal-in-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:39:59","slug":"caller-id-spoofing-to-be-made-illegal-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2007\/08\/caller-id-spoofing-to-be-made-illegal-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Caller ID Spoofing to be Made Illegal in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>The US Congress recently approved a bill that will make it illegal to spoof Caller ID in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>A while back the FCC announced the wanted to crack down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/05\/caller-id-spoofing-is-still-easy-fcc-investigates\/\">Caller ID spoofing as it was still too easy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The amount of the forfeiture penalty (&#8230;) shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation, or 3 times that amount for each day of a continuing violation, except that the amount assessed for any continuing violation shall not exceed a total of $1,000,000 for any single act or failure to act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The title of the act is &#8220;A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit manipulation of caller identification information&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was introduced on February 28, 2007 and updated 27th June 2007.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the full text <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c110:S.704:\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short name &#8220;Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#New468--><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:s.00704:\">Library of Congress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad] The US Congress recently approved a bill that will make it illegal to spoof Caller ID in the USA. A while back the FCC announced the wanted to crack down on Caller ID spoofing as it was still too easy. The amount of the forfeiture penalty (&#8230;) shall not exceed $10,000 for each violation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[566,567],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}