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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FCC Adopts Data Breach Notification Rules for Telecommunications Providers

At the end of 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “the Commission”) adopted updates to its existing 16-year-old data breach notification rules (“prior rules”) designed to ensure that sensitive customer...more

Benesch

Serial TCPA Litigant’s Claims Dismissed For Inadequately Pleading Whether His Number is Protected By TCPA

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Little details matter, particularly in TCPA class actions. The court’s decision in Perrong v. Victory Phones LLC, No. 20-5317, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26159 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 11, 2021) is a good reminder not to simply gloss over...more

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TCPA Compliance Curveball: First Circuit Holds That Landline Phone May Be Treated As A Cell Phone For TCPA Purposes

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In doing so, the First Circuit both expanded the scope of TCPA liability while simultaneously making compliance virtually impossible for callers. Cellular services and VOIP - The ATDS prohibition of the TCPA regulates...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The future is calling: “Voice over Internet Protocol” and the TCPA

One of the many criticisms of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), enacted in 1991, is that it has not kept pace with developments in communications technology. Instead, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

FCC Considers Investigation of 911 Mobile Device Apps

On December 19, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) issued a Public Notice (Notice) seeking comment on a letter from the National Association of State...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

NIST Recommends Against SMS as Second Authentication Factor

On July 29, Paul Grassi, the Senior Standards and Technology Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) posted an unusual blog regarding the new draft NIST Special Publication 800-63-3: Digital...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

TCPA Connect - July 2015

SPECIAL FOCUS: FCC Issues Long Awaited TCPA Declaratory Ruling and Order - On July 10, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order (Ruling) addressing 21 petitions...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

AT&T Petitions FCC to Replace TTY with Real-Time Text for Hearing Impaired Communications

On Friday, AT&T submitted a Petition for Rulemaking to the FCC, requesting that the Commission update its rules requiring support for text telephone (TTY) technology. The petition asks the FCC to launch a proceeding to...more

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