Proposal to Relax Law Against Automated Calls to Cellphones Prompts Uproar

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Consumer groups are up in arms over a bill to relax restrictions on calls to cellphones. The nHouse Communications Subcommittee scheduled a hearing for Friday on whether the nTelephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) went too far. The subcommittee plans to ask nwhether the telemarketing rules' mobile restrictions “are inadvertently preventing Americans nwho rely on wireless phones from receiving useful information, such as alerting consumers of nharmful activity on their bank accounts, data breaches, and other pertinent data affecting them ndirectly,” the Commerce Committee said. But consumer groups said changes could reduce nprivacy.