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the federal trade commission and the federal communications commission have asked private companies toby developing apps to stop robocalls. (grant) brie jackson reports on an expo in washington to showcase the latest products designed to block robocalls. federal officials and private companies want the annoying calls to stopthe federal communications commission says billions of robocalls are made each month. but there are ways to block thembrad pittmon's company vtech communications developed phones that use automated messages to stop robocalls before they ring to you. every unknown caller gets a message.brad pittmon/ vtech communications: that outgoing message says this number does not accept unsolicited calls if you are a telemarketer please hang up and if you are not press pound.brie jackson/d.c. correspondent: the fcc says it receives nearly 200,000 complaints each year and the majority of them deal with robocalls. now vendors along with lawmakers are working on ways to better protect consumers.patrick webre with the fccpatrick webre/ fcc spokesperson: there are these 3rd party app

the federal communications commission calls it neighbor spoofing. >> because of advances in technologyight now it's easy for them to send false caller i.d. information along with the call. >> reporter: the fcc says sometimes the caller i.d. is a bogus number, but other times it belongs to someone who doesn't know their number has been spoofed. linda eckman of san francisco realized that when she called back the number that came up on her caller i.d. >> i call somebody else, because they called me and they said they didn't call. >> reporter: linda's number has also been spoofed. >> somebody is saying that i called them and i'm saying, nope. >> reporter: meda taylor said she received that spoof call from linda's number. she says calls like these make people irritable and defensive. >> no, i didn't call you. why are you calling me? there's an edge to it, because everybody's inconvenienced by an unwanted or unsolicited call. >> reporter: in all of 2017, the federal communications commission received 4,000 complaints about spoofing. now, after just three months this year, the number of comp

the federal communications commission calls it neighbor spoofing. >> because of advances in technologyight now, it is actually very easy for them to send false caller i.d. information along with the call. >> reporter: the fcc says sometimes the caller i.d. is a bogus number. but other times it belongs to someone who doesn't know their number has been spoofed. linda eckman of san francisco realized that when she called back the number that came up on her caller i.d. i called somebody else because they called me. they said they didn't call. linda's number has already been spoofed. somebody saying i called them. i'm saying, nope. >> reporter: beta says calls like these make people irritable and defensive. >> no, i didn't call you. why are you calling me? there is an edge to it because everybody's inconvenienced by an unwanted or an unsolicited call. >> reporter: in all of 2017, the federal communications commission received 4,000 complaints about spoofing. now, after just three months this year, the number of complaints is on pace to double. >> so generally the pumps of spoof something tw

the federal communications commission to sell off some of their. different stations including w g any in chicago but now there is a letter from twenty two different senators saying let me quote what they say stop making further changes to the nation's broadcast landscape until the agency has conducted a complete and holistic look at the state of broadcasting the media and waiting before waiting for a ruling what do you make of his letter translation hit the brakes i was actually going to ask you about this because you have two different camera angles on this having worked the hill for senator daschle you know what it's like when that phone starts ringing and when the e-mail comes in when the touristas pop into the office when the snail mail comes in the members of congress hear that loud and clear and having been a commissioner i thought of you when i saw this story because suppose instead of trading commissioner you were an f.c.c. commissioner would you be wary of the sinclair syndrome. ib hundred percent where i mean twenty two is a big deal with

no oneras reallying the losses, i called the federal communications commission. and the federal trade commission today, they don't have the best number i can give you is one put together by consumer's ion, they say people in america lost $350 million last ar,nd every var to telemarketing telephone scams. t majority that is starting with a robo .ca we're talking about probably hundreds of millions of dollars a year. most people don't report the scam, so it'bl pro significantly higher than that. >> it seems, correct m if i'm wrong, to follow up on what bill was saying, they're making money on it, and is that why it seems we're getting more robo calls? >> there's a number -- every robo call is not bad, and every robo is not illegal. about 60% are perfectly legal. sometime w things wet. i want to know if my plane is delayed. i want to know if my prescription is ready at the. pharma there are a lot of political robo calls. and charitableobo calls are all legal to land line telephones. the reason we're getting so many, the technology makes it so easy for the bad guys to

the federal communications commission calls it neighbor spoofing. >> because of advances in technology right now it's easy for them to send false caller i.d. information along with the call. >> reporter: the fcc says sometimes the caller i.d. is a bogus number, but other times it belongs to someone who doesn't know their number has been spoofed. linda eckman of san francisco realized that when she called back the number that came up on her caller i.d. >> i call somebody else, because they called me and they said they didn't call. >> reporter: linda's number has also been spoofed. >> somebody is saying that i called them and i'm saying, nope. >> reporter: meda taylor said she received that spoof call from linda's number. she says calls like these make people irritable and defensive. >> no, i didn't call you. why are you calling me? there's an edge to it, because everybody's inconvenienced by an unwanted or unsolicited call. >> reporter: in all of 2017, the federal communications commission received 4,000 complaints about spoofing. now, after just three months this year, the number of co

the federal communications commission blocked an attempted merger between t-mobile and at&t m 2014, on grounds that having four national providers was necessary to ensure competition and rain in prices. t-mobile and sprint argue they are not competing with other providers, but also cable companies and tech firms, meaning there are already seven or eight major players in the u.s. wireless market. toobile pledged to invest up $40 billion in the first three years following the merger. it adds extra incentive for a business friendly trump administration to greenlight the deal. delano: more merger news to report this monday. sainsbury's has agreed to buy asda, a walmart unit, for 15 billion euros. -- thisld add to the merger would create the largest supermarket chain and place at the head the current dominant player, tesco. reporter: a merger to create the u.k.'s biggest supermarket group. st. mary's and -- sainsbury's british arm of walmart, say this could help them rise above current leader tesco. >> this is a transformational opportunity in u.k. retail and will give customers more of wha

and the federal communications commission won't allow prisons to jam the signals the phones need to communicatecaptain robert johnson nearly died in 2010 when he was shot outside of his home. >> a cell phone is given an inmate a weapons of mass destruction. >> reporter: the hit was organized from behind bars by a south carolina inmate with a cell phone at the same prison as last week's riot. >> he could call up his buddy, transfer the $6,000 they paid to shoot me, using their cell phone. >> reporter: captain johnson testified to the fcc last year and while the fcc acknowledges that contraband cell phones are a major public safety threat the agency also writes on the website cell phone jamming causes more problems than it solves. but south carolina officials warn that until the fcc helps them stop the problem -- >> the folks that are incarcerated are going to continue their criminal ways from behind bars. >> reporter: that's south carolina prison is currently installing a system that wouldn't jam cell phone signals but would block calls and texts from unauthorized phones. that technology has alr

. >> despite tough rules to keep them out, the phones keep coming in and the federal communications commissionn't allow prisons to jam the signals the phones need to communicate. captain robert johnson nearly died in 2010 when he was shot outside of his home. >> a cell phone has given the inmate a weapon of mass destruction. >> the hit was organized from behind bars by a south carolina inmate with a cell phone. at the same prison as last week's riot. >> he could call up his buddy, transfer the $6,000 that they paid to shoot me using a cell phone. >> captain johnson testified to the fcc last year. while the fcc acknowledged that contraband cell phones are a major public safety threat, the agency writes on its website that cell phone jamming causes more problems than it solves. but south carolina officials warn that until the fcc helps them stop the problem -- >> the folks that are incarcerated are going to continue their criminal ways from behind bars. >> our thanks to morgan for that report. >>> ahead, how you can get to travel the country on a harley for free. >>> plus, japan's answer for let

the new developments in the auto industry plus there is needy and merger news as the federal communications commission decides not to investigate sinclair media but there's another invest. geishas some members of congress see as sinclair tries to buy tribune media collins host of the big picture here on r.g.p. america gives us his learned take on the media all that ahead but first let's get to some headlines. it is tax day and the supreme court is hearing arguments about if states should be allowed to collect taxes from online purchases states cannot currently require online retailers like amazon for example to collect and then return those taxes to states from residents who order them online unless the retailer does have a physical presence in the state in question the case south dakota versus wayfair incorporated is expected to be decided by the supreme in june. according to the wall street journal the demand for lithium what has been referred to as white petroleum since it's so valuable is gaining rekindled traction in europe particularly in germany and the czech republic where there are still area

is also chairman of the federal communications commission. is well-known to the organization. he's the member of the board of governors one of two people who has received both republican lawyer of the year. with that,. [applause] thank you. >> several years ago we were very privileged to have commissioner with us from the fcc were very happy today his back for a return engagement. this time as chairman. know what in tremendously active year he has had at the home, both substantively and procedurally. >> we grew up as the son of indian immigrants, both doctors we then went on to harvard and the university of chicago law school graduating with honors his professional career includes chief counsel of the office of legal policy, chief counsel and the associate general counsel verizon and a partner at a law firm here in washington. it's good to have you back. we have a room full of lawyers from around the country but when he to not practice in the communications field. as we discussed that perhaps you can provide some background. i thought we start with network neutrality. it's a v

the federal communications commission do you think that it will approve sinclair's merger. given that the head of the f.c.c. is agit pai who seems to be perfectly content to advance president trump's agenda i do expect they will he's under investigation so maybe something would come out of that that sidetracks the merger or maybe congress steps in but that would seem to be also unlikely at least until after midterm elections and we'd see what happens there but my guess is if i was wagering money the merger will be approved and go through prior to midterms and what does this tell us about independent reporting in the u.s. you know here in europe we we scratch our heads and ask how can independent news be owned and operated by a commercial giant i mean have you been co-opted in the us. it increases the need for media literacy in the u.s. we have lots of commercial giants i've worked for many of them and sinclair is unique the other large station groups do have a true commitment to local journalism because they realize that good local journalism is also good business so while

to seventy percent of american homes now getting that deal passed the regulator the federal communications commission probably won't be an issue sinclair has a friend in the white house and donald trump who is administration is currently bingeing on deregulation. local television channels remain the primary news sources for millions of americans so there's a lot of stake here editorial balance accuracy and pluralism the kinds of things that those journalists mentioned as they do to fully read off their auto queues last week our starting point this week spread far and wide local news outlets right across the united states of america. this sharing by news has become a call to comment on that. this is a textbook example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts we work very hard to seek the truth and strive to be fair balanced and factual seen individually the sinclair editorials do not make much of an impact but when timothy burke a video editor in tampa florida collected forty four versions of that editorial from forty four local news markets and laid them side by side allowing americans to

their nearly two hundred local television stations in order to gain approval from the federal communications commission in order to go forward with the tribune deal in full sinclair is expected to sell twenty three stations in eighteen different markets which include tribune owned stations in cleveland dallas denver houston miami and sacramento sinclair previously announced that they would sell tribune stations including chicago's infamous w g n t v and newark new york w p i o x t.v. plus stations and several other markets. turning to india wal-mart is closing in on a deal to acquire online retailer flipkart if successful wal-mart's acquisition would give the discount chain a means to compete with amazon for the indian market bloomberg reports that wal-mart is prepared to pay twelve billion dollars to buy flipkart india's most popular online retailer from major stockholders including among others tiger global management and soft bank who both own about twenty percent bloomberg also reports that flipkart board is considering amazon as a corporate suit or add considered them as a corporate suitor but wer

so there was a twenty fourteen if you remember the federal communications commission started the taskce into the illicit use of sting rays nothing has come from that there offend no reports there's no memos there's nothing maybe someday it'll go to what the task force. boy that if that's taskmaster. good work later well we've got nothing but. another. great job. there's no guarantee of a successful prosperous career quite like a four year or better yet graduate college education that was the an arguable promise of college boosting programs like the g.i. bill and is the foundation of both modern college prep school curriculums and the stunningly profitable college test prep industry and now not only has college enrollment ballooned to historic levels and the most basic office assistant positions on linked in requiring a bachelor's degree at minimum we have allowed an entire generation of americans to shackle themselves to an ever growing college loan bubble now totaling over a trillion dollars but we're pushing young students more and more forcefully into the college that system and en

the federal communications commission to sell off some of their. different stations including w g any in chicago but now there is a letter from twenty two different senators saying let me quote what they say stop making further changes to the nation's broadcast landscape until the agency has conducted a complete and holistic look at the state of broadcasting the media and waiting before waiting for a ruling what do you make of his letter translation hit the brakes i was actually going to ask you about this because you have two different camera angles on this having worked the hill for senator daschle you know what it's like when that phone starts ringing and when the e-mail comes in when the touristas pop into the office when the snail mail comes in the members of congress hear that loud and clear and having been a commissioner i thought of you when i saw this story because suppose instead of trading commissioner you were an f.c.c. commissioner would you be wary of the sinclair syndrome. ib hundred percent where i mean twenty two is a big deal with

future of this sort of technology going forward and really is a push now to get the federal communications commission the f.c.c. to implement a basically a policy where regulation where they can do sell blocking technology the reason they can't now is because it's illegal under our c.c. regulations but there's a renewed push in the state of south carolina to make that happen and i know the speaking of the you have so you see the pie dough who's rather infamous for his interesting promotional tactic celebrating the end of the trial that he actually visibly and was advocating against cell phones in prison why is oggi pious so that we're getting involved in this is it because of another example of follow the money . or you know i think it probably is i think the news in the reporting investigating done to see what kind of types of communications online lobbying and that sort of thing that a company like secure us and its allies in that industry are doing but it wouldn't surprise me at all if that's the case and it doesn't surprise me at all like you said that i did go visit this particular facility like

federal communications commission is will not investigate sinclair broadcast group or distorting news coverage even after the urging to do so by prominent u.s. senator maria cantwell and eleven other senators including bernie sanders letter was sent after it was revealed and we reported it here on boom bust that sinclair news anchors that two hundred plus stations around the united states read identical scripts warning viewers about fake news meanwhile sinclair is in discussions to purchase tribune media for a reported three point nine billion dollars and here discuss all of it our media expert and a host of artes the big picture with holland cook holland cook of all people go of all people thank you for being here are you surprised i mean the the f.c.c. has the ability to investigate and grant licenses accept or are you surprised that they didn't take these senators request and go ahead and investigate sinclair the f.c.c. is very loath to regulate content but they're very strict when it comes to making sure people know what kind of content they're watching and in december they find s

so there was a twenty fourteen if you remember the federal communications commission started the taskce into the illicit use of sting rays nothing has come from that they're a fan no reports there's no memos there's nothing maybe someday it'll go to what the task force. boy that is some does taskmaster good work guys four years later well we got nothing but anyway you know who he didn't know but with with a. great job sixty create jobs. there's no guarantee of a successful prosperous career quite like a four year or better yet graduate college education that was the an arguable premise of college boosting programs like the g.i. bill and is the foundation of both modern college prep school curriculums and the stunningly profitable college test prep industry and now not only has college enrollment ballooned to historic levels and the most basic office assistant positions on linked in requiring a bachelor's degree at minimum we have allowed an entire generation of americans to shackle themselves to an ever growing college loan bubble now totaling over a trillion dollars but we're pushing

future of this sort of technology going forward and really is a push now to get the federal communications commission the f.c.c. to implement a basically a policy where regulation where they can do cell blocking technology on the reason they can now is because it's illegal under our c.c. regulations but there's a renewed push in the state of south carolina to make that happen and i know the speaking of the f.c.c. the pie dough who's rather infamous for his interesting promotional tactic celebrating the new trial that he actually visibly and was advocating against cell phones in prison why is oggi possibly getting involved in this is it because of another example of follow the money. or you know i think it probably is i think the news in your reporting investigating done to see what kind of types of communications online lobbying and that sort of thing that a company like secure us and its allies in that industry are doing but it wouldn't surprise me at all if that's the case and it doesn't surprise me at all like you said that i did go visit this particular facility like i said south carolina is real

the bill directs the federal communicationfederal communications commission to require phone companiestechnology to block robocalls. speier said the national do not call registery has failed to protect customers from scammers. the act would require telcom companies to verify the accuracy of the caller i-d information. ( james ) a sacramento prosecutor says it may be more than a year before her office decides if two police officers broke the law when they fatally shot an unarmed black man. a sacramento county district attorney says that her office doesn't have the police report into last month's death of stephon clark. she also says she doesn't have the official autopsy. it may be months before the d-a's office gets those reports... and months more before they decide if the officers committed a crime. ( james ) this massive banner is now hanging on sacramento's tower bridge. it reads -- "they want peaceful protests... we want the d-a to prosecute. stephon clark was shot last monith. police say clark was a burglary suspect who they áthought was holding a gun. he only had a cellphone on h

the new developments in the auto industry plus there's media and merger news as the federal communications commission decides not to investigate sinclair media but there's another investigation that some members of congress see as sinclair tries to buy tribune media collins cook host of the big picture here in our city america gives us his learned take on the media all that ahead but first let's get to some headlines. it is tax day and the supreme court is hearing arguments about if states should be allowed to collect taxes from online purchases states cannot currently require online read literature retailers like amazon for example to collect and then return those taxes to states from residents who order them online unless the retailer does have a physical presence in the state in question the case south dakota versus wayfair incorporated is expected to be decided by the supreme in june. according to the wall street journal the demand for lithium what has been referred to as white petroleum since it's so valuable is gaining rekindled traction in europe.

now, the federal communications commission has announced a $40 million settlement. settlement is over accusations that the carrier made it seem that all outgoing calls wherere ringing at the destination when they were not. t-mobile u.s. admitted they did not correct the problem. according to the fcc, t-mobile u.s. injected the false ringing sounds on hundreds of millions of calls. why on earth do this? the called party believes that the call is actually ringing when it is not and as a result, the caller could hang up, thinking nobody is available to receive the call, thus saving t-mobile fees it would have had to pay the local carrier. now, coming up, the u.s. congress called and mark zuckerberg answered. now, he's getting ready to meet with a top european regulator. that's next. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the bloomberg radio. you can listen on the bloomberg bloomberg.com and in xm.u.s., on sirius ♪ caroline: facebook is providing more information on what data it collects from users when they are locked out of this little media what rightful the web

the federal communications commission voted 5-0 in favor of banning federal funds from being spent ones deemed to u.s. national security risk. the ban won't be final until a second vote by the fcc. these steps coming as trade tensions grow between the u.s. and china. yet another chinese technology company is headed for an ipo. said to be seeking an ipo at a $4 billion valuation. the online fashion retailer is said to be in talks with several investment banks. as of 2016, they had about 15,000 merchants on its site and 100 million downloads for its mobile app. and 32k, microsoft, other tech companies have pledged to protect their customers from cyberattacks in a nuew commitment -- in a new commitment. notably absent from the initial roster is apple, amazon, twitter, and google. on monday, officials issued a statement that after years of the warning was only the latest in a series on russian threats to elections and electoral systems. we spoke with microsoft president. >> i think our industry really needs to come together on a global basis to strengthen cybersecurity. we need to be prin

. >>> the federal communications commission and the federal trade commission got together recently to learn about robocalls. automated telephone calls that deliver prerecorded messages to large numbers of people. officials from both agencies, along with communications analysts, talked about techniques used by te telemarketers. this is about three hours. >> good morning, everyone. and welcome to the fcc, ftc policy forum on fighting the scourge of illegal robocalls. i'm patrick weber, chief of the consumer and governmental affairs bureau. we're very pleased to join forces with the ftc to further the fight against illegal robocalls. and caller i.d. spoofing. unwanted calls are a major source of complaints to the fcc and ftc, and we

in that case he was also chairman of the federal communications commission, et cetera. i mean, he is well-known to this organization. dick is a member of our board of governors. he is also one of only go people who has received both republican lawyer of the year and our prestigious meese award. so with that i will turn the microphone. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, several years ago as you may recall we were very privileged to have commissioner ajit pai with us from the fcc we're very happy that he is back for return engagement but this time as chairman pai. [applause] and what a tremendously active year he has had at the helm, both substantively and procedurally. he grew up in a small town in kansas, the son of indian immigrants, both doctors. he then went on to harvard and university of chicago law school, graduating with honors from both of them. served as a law review editor at chicago and clerked on the federal direct court thereafter. his professional career includes chief counsel of the house, the office of legal policy, the department