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Plaintiff Alleges Charter, Spectrum Violated His Privacy via Their Persistent Texts

Charter Communications and Spectrum send automated texts to individuals throughout the U.S. who should be on their internal do not text lists, and they do so without obtaining consumers’ prior express written consent, alleged plaintiff Mark Bruder’s Telephone Consumer Protection…

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Act complaint Friday (docket 4:23-cv-01075) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Missouri in St. Louis. Charter and Spectrum violated the Missouri resident’s “privacy and statutory rights,” and caused him “to suffer actual harm by subjecting him to the aggravation that necessarily accompanies the receipt of such repeated and unauthorized automated texts,” said the complaint. The companies’ texts to Bruder’s phone persisted despite his multiple attempts to opt out, it said. He seeks injunctive relief prohibiting future TCPA violations, plus $1,500 for “each and every” text that willfully or knowingly violated the TCPA.