Facebook User To High Court: Resolve TCPA Ambiguity Over Random Number Generators

Mealey's (July 17, 2023, 3:25 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite a 2021 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on what types of automated calls and messages violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a man who filed a putative class action over unwanted texts he received in connection with his Facebook account tells the high court in a petition for certiorari that confusion still reigns in the lower courts over what functions a random or sequential number generator (RSNG) must perform to run afoul of the statute’s prohibition against robocalls....