AI Robotics Firm Sent 6 Texts Since April to Number on DNC Registry: Class Action
Moxie Robot, a Pasadena, California, company, delivered at least six promotional text messages to Ethan Radvansky's residential cellphone after he had listed his number on the national do not call registry April 18, he alleged in his Telephone Consumer Protection…
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Act class action Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-00224) in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Newnan. The company bills itself as the supplier of the first AI conversational learning robot for kids younger than 10. The text messages were intended for someone other than Radvansky, and was a person unknown to him, said his complaint. The Haralson County, Georgia, plaintiff didn’t give the company prior express consent or permission to deliver its marketing text messages to his cellphone number, nor had he requested information or promotional materials from Moxie Robot, it said. The text messages harmed Radvansky “in that he suffered an invasion of privacy, an intrusion into his life, and a private nuisance,” the complaint said.