Foreign Robocall Elimination Act

Combating Unlawful Robocalls: The establishment of a taskforce is intended to find the most effective ways to combat unlawful robocalls made into the United States from outside the country (Section 2(d)(1)).

Addressing Financial Loss and Identity Theft: The bill directs the taskforce to determine the magnitude of financial loss and the number of instances of stolen identity caused by unlawful robocalls from outside the United States (Section 2(d)(2)(C)).

Improving Call Authentication: The taskforce is charged with examining methods to encourage the adoption of caller identification authentication technology in foreign countries (Section 2(d)(2)(E)).

Legal Protection for Information Sharing: The bill provides immunity to a registered consortium against legal actions for receiving, sharing, or publishing information related to suspected unlawful, fraudulent, or abusive robocalls (Section 4(a)).

Enhanced Accountability for Providers: The FCC is authorized to publish lists of voice service providers that refuse to participate in trace back efforts or are found to transmit substantial amounts of unlawful robocalls (Section 4(b)).

Ensuring Provider Integrity: The bill allows for a bond requirement of up to $100,000 to ensure providers demonstrate legitimate operations and the ability to pay fines (Section 5(b)(1) and 5(c)(1)).

Potential Burden on Legitimate Providers: While the bill seeks to minimize burdens, it allows for a bond requirement that could be imposed on providers that do not demonstrate specific criteria of legitimacy (Section 5(b)(1)).

Impact of Public Disclosure: The taskforce must consider whether requiring public disclosure of trace back results might expose proprietary or sensitive information of legitimate providers (Section 2(d)(2)(P)).