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Accelerating Privacy Scrutiny: Key Developments for the Auto Industry

Venable LLP on 6/4/2024

Recent U.S. developments indicate a growing focus on regulating and investigating the data privacy practices of companies in the automotive sector. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently highlighted in a blog post its...more

FCC Fines Major Wireless Carriers $200 Million for Sharing Customer Geolocation Data

Venable LLP on 5/2/2024

Early this week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it had fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers for sharing access to customers’ geolocation information without consent and without taking reasonable...more

NTIA Releases Highly Anticipated National Spectrum Strategy

Wiley Rein LLP on 11/14/2023

On November 13, 2023, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released its National Spectrum Strategy (Strategy)—a “high-level blueprint” articulating the Biden-Harris Administration’s national...more

Artificial Intelligence may bolster FCC management of an increasingly congested RF environment

Hogan Lovells on 7/25/2023

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and similar technologies can gather and analyze large, complex datasets. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is now exploring how such capabilities can help map real-time...more

Financial Daily Dose 3.2.2020 | Top Story: Activist Elliott Mgmt Amasses Stake in Twitter and Takes Aim at CEO Jack Dorsey

Robins Kaplan LLP on 3/2/2020

Paul Singer and the Elliott Mgmt crew have a new target in their sights: Twitter’s founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey. Singer’s Elliott fund has amassed a “significant stake” in the company—perhaps as much as a billion—and is...more

Telemarketing Legislation, Litigation Remain Hot-Button Issues for Legislature and Courts

Harris Beach PLLC on 1/30/2020

The legislation and litigation regarding unwanted calls remain alive and well and show no signs of ending anytime soon. With recent statutes enacted by the federal and New York State legislatures, telemarketing and debt...more

Privacy and Data Security Alert | June 2019 #2

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 6/11/2019

Maine Bill Requires ISPs to Obtain Opt-In Consent from Customers - The Maine legislature has passed a bill that requires internet service providers (ISPs) operating in Maine to obtain express, affirmative consent from...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/26/2018

Just days after the summit between the U.S. and North Korea, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning about a malicious malware, a Trojan malware variant known as...more

Repeal of FCC Privacy Rules Sparks Concern in U.S. and Europe

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/11/2017

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) privacy rules required providers such as Comcast Corp. and AT&T Inc. to get subscribers’ permission before collecting and sharing their personal data. On April 4, 2017, President...more

Congress, FCC Weigh Measures to Repeal ISP Privacy Rules

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/22/2017

Last October, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved new privacy rules governing how Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are permitted to use and share its customers’ personal information. The rules have been...more

FCC Issues New Privacy Regulations for Broadband Providers

Latham & Watkins LLP on 10/28/2016

Today, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved far-reaching new information privacy rules that will govern how providers of broadband Internet access service collect, use, protect, and share data from their...more

FCC Proposes Sweeping Broadband Privacy Rules

Latham & Watkins LLP on 4/13/2016

Broadband Internet access service providers would face a new, top-to-bottom consumer privacy regime. Twelve months after the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposed common-carrier telecommunications rules on...more

Advertising Law - November 2015 #4

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/30/2015

Sharing Is Caring? New Report Documents Apps Sharing User Data at High Rates - A new report has revealed that Apple and Android apps share information with third parties at high rates. Testing 55 of the most popular...more

Advertising Law - September 2015 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/28/2015

FTC Reviews Kids’ Apps for Privacy Progress - Three years after conducting a survey on apps directed to children, the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation decided to check back with...more

Annual FCC CPNI Certification Due by March 1, 2015; Potential Title II Reclassification Could Soon Expand CPNI Obligations to...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 2/16/2015

This is to remind our clients that, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 222(c), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requires every telecommunications and interconnected VoIP service provider (including wireless, cable telephony,...more

Advertising Law - November 2014 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/21/2014

Shhhhh…Whisper Faces Lawmaker Scrutiny Over Privacy Claims - Just how safe is the purported “safest place on the Internet”?: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) wants to find out. The Chair of the Senate Committee on...more

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