Places automated calls, in Pennsylvania

74 P.S. § 201 (Act 60 of 2006) · Read the law's page

• Do not publicly post or publicly display an individual's Social Security number in any manner; to post or display means to intentionally communicate or otherwise make it available to the general public.
• Do not print an individual's Social Security number on any card required to access your products or services, or on materials mailed to the individual unless Federal or State law requires it. A number permitted in a mailing may not be printed, in whole or in part, on a postcard or other mailer that needs no envelope, or be visible on the envelope or without opening it.
• Do not require an individual to transmit a Social Security number over the Internet unless the connection is secure or the number is encrypted, or to use it to access an Internet website unless a password, unique personal identification number or other authentication device is also required.
• Do not disclose, except to the agency issuing the license, the Social Security number of an individual who applies for a recreational license under 30 Pa.C.S. (fish) or 34 Pa.C.S. (game).
• If you continue a use of Social Security numbers that began before the effective date and is inconsistent with these limits, make the use continuous, give each individual an annual disclosure of the right to stop it, and discontinue it within 30 days of a written request, at no fee and without denying services.

196 A.3d 1036 (Pa. 2018)

• Applies to an employer that stores its employees' sensitive personal information on an internet-accessible computer system.
• Exercise reasonable care to safeguard that information: the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held, on review of an order sustaining preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer, that such an employer has a legal duty to do so.

18 Pa.C.S. § 7661 · Read the law's page

• Do not use a computer or computer network without authority, and with the intent to falsify or forge electronic mail transmission information or other routing information, in connection with transmitting unsolicited electronic mail through or into the network of an email or Internet service provider or its subscribers; for this offense electronic mail includes a fax and a wireless advertisement.
• Do not sell, give, distribute, or possess with intent to distribute, software primarily designed or produced to enable falsification of electronic mail transmission or routing information, software with only limited other commercially significant use, or software marketed for that purpose.

73 P.S. §§ 2241-2249 (Act 147 of 1996) · Read the law's page

• The duties below are those of the Act as Act 47 of 2026 rewrote it, in force since October 18, 2026, 90 days after its approval on July 20, 2026.
• Register with the Office of Attorney General, with a $50,000 surety bond, at least 30 days before offering consumer goods or services for sale, and before you or your telemarketers initiate or receive a telemarketing call or message with a Pennsylvania subscriber, unless an exemption applies (among others, a business licensed by or registered with a federal or Commonwealth agency acting within that licence, a qualifying catalog seller, an established business-to-business seller, or a seller calling its own past purchasers after three years under one name).
• Do not make a telephone solicitation, including a text message or ringless voicemail, on a Sunday, on a legal holiday, or before 9 a.m. or after 7 p.m., or to a subscriber who has told you they do not want solicitations from you or your seller (for a text message, a reply such as stop, quit, end, revoke, opt out, cancel or unsubscribe), or to a number on the do-not-call list once 30 days have passed since the quarterly list that first contains it; obtain the list quarterly and use it only to remove numbers.
• Do not initiate a robocall to a residential, business or wireless line without the called party's prior express written consent: a signed agreement (an electronic signature can qualify) naming the number, clearly and conspicuously disclosing consent to solicitations including a robocall or text message, and stating that consent is not a condition of purchase; do not use an unfair or deceptive practice to obtain it.
• If you use robocalls, state at the start of each call how to opt out, offer an automated voice or key-press opt-out within two seconds of identifying the caller and the seller and throughout the call, remove an opting-out number immediately, never require written consent to opt out, and leave a toll-free number reaching that opt-out in any voicemail message.
• During the initial contact, disclose promptly the purpose of the call, your name and what you are selling; give the caller's name, the name of the person on whose behalf you call and, on request, a contact number or address; end the solicitation when the called party indicates they want to end it.
• Do not act to block or falsify your name or number on the recipient's caller identification, or to circumvent, bypass or disable a call-screening product the subscriber uses, and do not use any technology or any synthetic or computer-generated messaging to defraud, deceive or mislead a subscriber.
• A call or message is not a telephone solicitation, so the calling-hours, do-not-call and robocall duties do not reach it, when made in response to the subscriber's prior express written consent, about an existing debt, contract, payment or performance, to a subscriber with whom you have had an established business relationship within the past 12 months, for an organization tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3), (5) or (8) of the Internal Revenue Code or a congressionally chartered veterans organization, or for a political candidate or party.