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 ...

Forget about campaign posters, or emails, or leaflets, or door-to-door canvassing. The last two weeks of this election season, as one Ohio congressman put it, are going to be all about “robo-mania.” ...

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 ...