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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) was signed by the United States Congress in 1991 as Public Law 102-243 by former President Bush, updating the Communications Act of 1934. It is the primary law governing the conduct of telephone solicatation, ie. telemarketing. The TCPA restricts the use of automatic dialing systems, artificial or prerecorded voice messages, and fax machines to send unsolicited advertisements. The law has important implications for telemarketing firms: The major limitation of this law that renders it all but ineffective at stopping unsolicited calls is that the consumer must request of each telemarketer to be put onto that telemarketer's do-not-call list. This burden was lifted by the Do-Not-Call Implementation Act's establishment of the National Do Not Call Registry. The portions of the TCPA related to junk fax were amended by two later acts: the CAN-SPAM Act and the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005. See also: telemarketing, autodialer
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