Study: Md. ranks No. 1 for most FCC complaints on unwanted calls

NOTTINGHAM, MD—It’s not just you.  Marylanders really do get a lot of unwanted phone calls, and there’s new data to back it up. Unwanted calls have infiltrated the daily lives of Americans, making up 66 percent of Federal Communications Commission complaints in 2018. In a new study, the team at Security.org analyzed the FCC’s Consumer Complaint Open Data going back […]

Attorney General Frosh announces new effort to halt illegal robocalls

BALTIMORE, MD – Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh on Thursday announced that, as a result of a bipartisan, public/private coalition of 51 attorneys general and 12 phone companies, several phone companies have agreed to adopt eight principles to fight illegal robocalls. This agreement will help protect phone users from illegal robocalls and make it easier for attorneys general to […]