Information Technology Acts Paper

Information Technology Acts Paper

For numerous years, the federal government and Congress helped to assist and defend paying citizens by formulating laws or acts. Discussed in this week's readings, provided are some of these acts: the Do Not Call Implementation Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 1991, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act, 1986, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, 1978, and the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), 2002. To implement consumer protection, the Federal Government and Congress have passed several acts that assist the federal government in the process. This paper discusses the Do not Call Implementation Act of 2003, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991.

Information Technology continually has increased and improved over the years. Technology in telephone communication has also changed drastically. In the early 1870s Alexander Graham Bell designed devices that electronically transmitted speech. The telegraph was the initial means of communication for about 30 years until Bell designed and patented the telephone. Since the first invention of the telephone, it has changed many times over the years. In the early 1940s the first touch-toned system rather than pulses was installed and in 1964 touch tone phones were invented. In recent times, devices developed assists people to detect and monitor ingoing and outgoing phone calls. Other telephone number capturing systems such as the caller identification system have relieved consumers of the nuisance of telemarketing callers and other unwanted callers. Telemarketers used advanced information technology such as pre-recorded messages to consumer homes that made more consumers increase the number of complaints to the federal government. To assist in this complaint matter, the government passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1991. In 2003 Congress also passed the Do Not Call Implementation Act.

Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1991, which was an amendment of the Communications Act of 1934. The TCPA governs the conduct of telephone solicitations such as telemarketing. The act restricts the use of text messages received by cell phones, the use of fax machines to send unsolicited advertisements, automatic dialing systems, and artificial or prerecorded voice messages. Consumers believed it was their choice whether he or she wishes to receive unwanted calls, and their rights were violated by the telemarketers calling the without the option of placing their number on a do not call list.

Congress also passed the Do Not Call Implementation Act in 2003. On June 27, 2003, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened the National Do Not Call Registry in which to comply with the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act of 2003. This registry allows consumers to put his or her name on a do not call list, in which if they choose, reduce