Yahoo’s system for automatically texting its users when their email accounts have received a new message doesn’t violate the federal law that protects consumers from unsolicited calls, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Senior Judge Michael M. Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted summary judgment to Yahoo in a proposed class action brought by Bill Dominguez, who was given a recycled phone number when he bought a cellular telephone. The person who had the number before him had signed up for Yahoo’s program that alerts its users to new email messages through a text message. Dominguez would get the texts although he had never consented to the program.
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