The Federal Communications Commission is enhancing its Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD) compliance obligations and increasing base forfeiture amounts for RMD violations. The FCC’s new rules follow a recent Enforcement...more
1/17/2025
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Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FCC ,
Fees ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Fines ,
New Rules ,
OMB ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Robocalling ,
Telecommunications
On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit reinstated a stay of the Corporate Transparency Act’s requirement that businesses must file Beneficial Ownership Information reports. Accordingly, there is at present no obligation to...more
1/3/2025
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Beneficial Owner ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Filing Deadlines ,
FinCEN ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Reporting Requirements ,
SCOTUS ,
Stays
Subscription-based services are a lynchpin of the services industry and the current focus of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new “click to cancel” rule. Responding to customer complaints focusing on the difficulty of...more
The FCC has adopted a three-year pilot program that will disburse up to $200 million from the Universal Service Fund (USF) to schools and libraries seeking to cover eligible cybersecurity services and equipment. The pilot...more
The Federal Communications Commission has set a February 26, 2024 filing deadline for all providers in the call chain, regardless of STIR/SHAKEN status or whether they have the facilities to implement STIR/SHAKEN, to file...more
2/8/2024
/ Authentication ,
Broadband ,
Certification Requirements ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Infrastructure ,
Mitigation ,
NPRM ,
Robocalling ,
Spectrum ,
Telecommunications ,
Telephone Service Providers
The FCC has significantly expanded telecommunications carriers’ data breach notification and reporting obligations. Telecommunications carriers, including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, and telecommunications...more
1/19/2024
/ Bank Accounts ,
Biometric Information ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Credit Reporting Agencies ,
Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Driver's Licenses ,
FBI ,
FCC ,
Identity Theft ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Secret Service ,
Social Security Numbers ,
Telecommunications ,
VoIP
The FCC has announced the dates that broadband internet service providers are required to display Broadband Consumer Labels. Providers with 100,000 or fewer subscriber lines will have until October 10, 2024 to display the...more
10/20/2023
/ Broadband ,
Discounts ,
FCC ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Performance Standards ,
Pricing ,
Privacy Policy ,
Product Labels ,
State Taxes ,
Transparency
The FCC is asking for comments on proposed changes and clarifications to its robocall and robotext requirements for grant and revocation of consumer consents. Revocation of Consent. The FCC wants its current opt-out and...more
6/15/2023
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
FCC ,
Marketing ,
Opt-Outs ,
Revocation ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Wireless Industry
The FCC has released new rules that expand caller ID authentication requirements, impose enhanced robocall mitigation obligations, create new mechanisms to hold providers accountable for non-compliance, and set forth the...more
4/19/2023
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Compliance ,
Enforcement ,
FCC ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Infrastructure ,
Mitigation ,
New Rules ,
Noncompliance ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Penalties ,
Robocalling
Iowa has become the sixth state in the country to enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and Utah. The “Relating to Consumer Data Protection, Providing Civil...more
The FCC has announced an effective date of July 20, 2023 for rule amendments that affect certain calls to residential numbers that currently are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) prior express consent...more
In a recent Order, the FCC clarified the scope of TCPA relief applicable to utility companies, confirming that “prior express consent” may be presumed for certain calls that the FCC determined previously are “closely related”...more
The Federal Communications Commission has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to modernize the data breach reporting requirements for customer proprietary network information (CPNI), which apply to all...more
The Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which amended the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), becomes fully effective on January 1, 2023. Businesses should review the new law and recent enforcement actions before the law...more
11/9/2022
/ California ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Data Protection ,
Data Sellers ,
Do Not Sell ,
Failure To Disclose ,
Opt-Outs ,
Penalties ,
Personal Information ,
Risk Assessment ,
Sephora
The recently-signed Oklahoma Telephone Solicitation Act of 2022 (OTSA) will become effective November 1, 2022. The OTSA, like the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act...more