House Passes Caller ID Spoofing Bill

The House passed HR 1110 [LOC | WW], the "Preventing Harassment through Outbound Number Enforcement Act of 2009", or "PHONE Act", by a vote of 418-1.

This is a bill to create a criminal prohibition of certain caller ID spoofing. That is, this bill addresses caller ID spoofing, and the associated fraud and identity theft, by amending criminal law.

The bill would add a new section to the criminal code that would provide that "Whoever, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, knowingly uses or provides to another (1) false caller ID information with intent wrongfully to obtain anything of value; or (2) caller ID information pertaining to an actual person or other entity without that person's or entity's consent and with intent to deceive any person or other entity about the identity of the caller... shall be punished..."

It would define "caller ID information" as "any identifying information regarding the origination of a telephone call, including the name or the telephone number of the caller, that is transmitted with the telephone call".

Like most statutes that ban certain conduct in communications or on the internet, this bill would carve out exceptions for law enforcement and intelligence activities.

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