Robocalls to cell phones billed to the phone owner might be on the agenda:

“The innocent-sounding “Mobile Information Call Act” would allow all sorts of nuisance calls to cell phones, eating into customers’ costly minutes, Sen. Chuck Schumer warned Sunday.

“The floodgates would be open to telemarketers, who could call you on your cell phone during breakfast, lunch, dinner, no matter if you’re at home, at school, at the office,” said Schumer, who vowed to fight the legislation proposed by House Republicans.

Schumer didn’t mention that the GOP bill’s sole Democratic co-sponsor was a fellow New Yorker — Rep. Ed Towns (D-Brooklyn).

Towns and the entire House Energy and Commerce Committee already got an earful at a recent hearing when consumer groups blasted the bill.

Brooklyn residents interviewed Sunday said the legislation was a bad idea.

“What politician in his right mind would support this?” asked John Berigan, 44, of Park Slope, who uses his cell phone for his real estate business.

“There’s no one in the general public who would want this. “It would seem that some lobbyist in Washington has gotten to [Towns],” he said.

Current law bars telemarketing calls to cell phones unless the customer has given approval. The proposed change would allow prerecorded “informational” calls to be made to cell phones without consent.”

Comment:

Repeat. You would be billed for nuisance and junk calls from strangers. Not to mention the incredible attack on privacy this involves…and the cybercrime it’s bound to enable.