New York enacts robocall blocking and STIR-SHAKEN laws
2021-11-19 · News
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law two bills that address robocall issues. The first bill, S-6267/A-268, requires telecommunications providers to block certain numbers. As described by the Governor's announcement, the bill "codifies in state law the provisions of a rule released by the FCC in 2017, that went into effect in June of 2021, that allows telecommunications companies to proactively block calls from certain numbers." These would include calls that are the most likely to be illegitimate, as they are coming from numbers that do not or cannot make outgoing calls — indicative of 'spoofing' schemes in which the true caller identity is masked behind a fake, invalid number.