Cameron Langford reports:
Mississippi cannot outlaw spoofing services that do not try to cause harm by misrepresenting a phone caller’s number to the recipient, the 5th Circuit ruled.
In 2010 Mississippi enacted the Caller ID Anti-Spoofing Act (ASA) which makes it illegal for a person to enter false information into a phone caller ID system with the intent to deceive, defraud or mislead the recipient. The law also makes it illegal to knowingly place a call after false info has been entered into the phone caller ID system with intent to deceive, defraud or mislead the recipient.
Read more about the case and the Fifth Circuit’s ruling on Courthouse News.