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The TCPA: Basics, Targeted Industries, and Trends
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U.S. law has long provided a border search exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant or probable cause requirement, allowing federal agents to search people, and their electronic devices, at border crossings without a warrant...more
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a new report and order (“Order”) concerning revocation of consumer consent under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The new rules revise how...more
Are you reimbursing employees for business expenses? Weintraub attorneys Meagan Bainbridge and Nikki Mahmoudi discuss key reimbursement policies under California law, including cell phone use and mileage for business travel...more
Potential and actual distractions abound when you occupy the driver's seat. You adjust the volume on the radio, heat, and air conditioning. Large screens in the front display maps, directions, radio stations, the song being...more
The Litigation Byte is the new name and format for McGlinchey’s Commercial Law Bulletin. Our new format reflects McGlinchey’s national coverage and our expanded footprint while still serving up the digestible, insightful...more
TracFone, the pre-paid phone company, recently settled with the FCC over allegations that the company failed to protect customer information during three different data incidents. According to the FCC, in each of the...more
This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a settlement with TracFone Wireless to resolve investigations into whether TracFone failed to reasonably protect its customers’ information from unauthorized...more
On July 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that “users of cellphones are not categorically excluded from the definition of ‘residential subscriber’ under the TCPA (Telephone...more
A law signed on Monday by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro allocates $100 million to the School Safety & Mental Health grant program that can be used by schools to purchase secure, lockable smartphone bags students will use to...more
BALTIMORE — Gig Work on the Rise in Baltimore Area- Gig work is on the rise in the Baltimore area, becoming a predominant lifestyle choice for many individuals. The trend underscores a significant shift in employment...more
States and public school districts across the country are pushing for cellphone bans in schools, claiming that the devices cause major classroom distractions and other negative effects on students. As a growing number of...more
County police officers were investigating a theft of farm equipment. They applied for a “geofence warrant” to be served on Google: “A geofence warrant authorizes the seizure of location data collected from smartphones of...more
The Pennsylvania Senate introduced a bill on June 21, 2024 to launch a pilot program to regulate the use of cell phones by students in public schools. A similar bill was introduced in the PA House in February 2024. The...more
Mobile devices and cell phones are frequent sources of evidence in modern legal cases and investigations, and a common question involves where a phone was at a particular time. Although CSI makes this seem like a question...more
In the days before cellphones, employees required to remain on-call for work were generally entitled to compensation for time spent at home waiting for the landline to ring. Given the ubiquity of mobile communication...more
Cell phones have now been around for decades. Along the way, they have grown up, became “smart” and are now indispensable to daily life, offering limitless options to communicate, shop and entertain ourselves. How prominent...more
Editor's Note: In a significant study from MIT's CSAIL, researchers have unveiled vulnerabilities in smartphone ambient light sensors, highlighting them as potential channels for privacy breaches. This discovery underscores...more
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published April 17, 2024 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of the...more
Hat tip to Debbie Reynolds for the heads up on this story! More than 130 petitions seeking access to push notification metadata have been filed in US courts, according to a Washington Post investigation also reported on...more
Since the dawn of cellphones, partners in domestic disputes who suspect their spouse is cheating on them want to see their partner’s phone records....more
The use of smartphones in the workplace is commonplace. Smartphones can offer many benefits to employees and employers, such as increased productivity, communication, collaboration, and flexibility. Hence, many companies...more
The FCC reminded companies this month that calls containing “artificial or prerecorded voices” are regulated by TCPA. And, that the FCC considers AI-generated voices to be just the kind of “artificial” that fall within the...more
The FCC has adopted a Report and Order imposing a number of new TCPA caller and sender compliance obligations in connection with consumer revocation requests, which are applicable to calls and text messages that otherwise...more
In ‘Rust’ Armorer’s Phone Snafu Shows Risks Of Texting Clients – Law360 (Feb. 13, 2024), Phillip Bantz wrote: “A legal dust-up over compromised text messages between a movie prop weapons expert and her lawyer in the ‘Rust’...more