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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Beware of Scams that Hijack Cellphone Accounts: The Importance of Authentication for Businesses and Consumers: Privacy Day...

Consumers use cell phone numbers to authenticate their identities across a variety of accounts, such as those held with wireless providers, financial institutions, healthcare providers, and retail websites. One common example...more

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

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

FCC’s Second Report and Order Will Leave Lead Generation Industry in Limbo

On November 22, the FCC issued a Second Report and Order with sweeping implications for the lead generation industry. The FCC has tentatively scheduled the issue for a vote during its December 13, 2023 open meeting....more

Cornerstone Research

Reimagining the Consumer Decision Journey

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The internet has transformed many aspects of life over the last three decades. Individuals in the United States and across the globe now use computers or mobile devices to communicate with friends, family, and strangers; look...more

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(Jersey) Cell Companies

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The Companies (Jersey) Law 1991 (the "Law") permits the creation of cell companies and sets out the legal requirements relating to cell companies in Jersey. In essence, cell companies are companies whose assets and...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

11th Circuit Finds One Unwanted Text Message Sufficient to Allow Standing to File Suit in Drazen v. Pinto

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In the case of Drazen v. Pinto, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc ruled unanimously that plaintiffs who received a single unwanted telemarketing text message suffered a concrete injury. In 2019, Susan...more

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Spring Cleaning: FCC Modifies TCPA Regulations to Block “Likely” Illegal Text Messages and Considers Further Action On “Lead...

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On March 17, 2023, the FCC issued a Report and Order adopting final rules that require mobile wireless providers to block certain text messages to their subscribers. The FCC also issued a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FCC Publishes Robotexting Report and Order and FNPRM in the Federal Register

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On April 11, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) published a Report and Order (R&O) in the Federal Register, setting an effective date of May 11, 2023 for certain of its rules. The R&O establishes...more

Lerman Senter PLLC

Oklahoma Passes New Telephone Solicitation Act Similar to the Federal TCPA

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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

A&O Shearman

Incorporating by reference? Be caring and as clear as the sky is blu

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A cancellation clause in a signed mobile phone supply contract was considered unduly onerous and not fairly and reasonably drawn to the purchaser’s attention to be incorporated by reference. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #300 – Apple iPhone Users: Update Your iPhone iOS ASAP

We have noted before how important it is to update the operating system (OS) on your mobile phone as soon as you receive notice from the manufacturer. This week, Apple issued an update to the iOS that is considered urgent....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #293 – Location, Location, Location-Based Services

This is not the first post discussing location-based services on mobile phones. And it won’t be the last. After reading my colleague’s post on the priest who resigned from his high-profile position after his location was tied...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #284 – Check Out EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense Playlist: Getting to Know Your Phone

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (www.eff.org) is a wonderful resource for privacy-related issues and concerns. I check its website frequently to make sure I am aware of the latest issues and concerns around privacy....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

California Superior Court invalidates sales tax Regulation 1585 awarding refund on sales of bundled cellular telephones

On Oct. 27, 2020, the Sacramento Superior Court granted a writ of prohibition barring the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (the Department) from applying sales tax Regulation 1585 (Reg 1585) to bundled...more

Hogan Lovells

Causal link between mobile phones and brain tumour: a new decision revives the debate

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On 13 January 2020 the Turin Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal filed by the National Insurance Provider ("INAIL") and upheld the first instance decision issued by the Court of Ivrea in 2017, which had established...more

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2019 crisis leadership in review

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What starts online won't stop there - There aren't many college basketball games that change the share price of a Fortune 100 company. But in February 2019, Duke University freshman star Zion Williamson blew out one of his...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Minimizing Risks of BYOD Use For Work

Employees seem permanently attached to their smart phones today, but allowing employees to use their personal devices to make work calls, and send and receive work emails can carry substantial risks. ...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

NYC Moves to Prohibit Sharing of Location Data

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New York City (NYC) Council members are proposing unprecedented action to curb location data sharing. The City Council bill to ban the sharing of cellphone users' geo-location data to marketers was presented for debate after...more

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EU Commission Hits Qualcomm with Fine of EUR 242 million for Predatory Pricing

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For a second time in 18 months the EU Commission has slapped a large antitrust fine on Qualcomm, the world’s largest chip manufacturer. On 18 July 2019, the European Commission announced that it has imposed a fine of EUR 242...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

FCC Proposes Mobile Phone E911 Vertical Location Accuracy Standard

At its March 15 Open Meeting, the FCC intends to vote on a Fourth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“FNPRM”) in its Wireless E911 Location Accuracy Requirements proceeding that would consider adoption of a vertical, or...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Court Rules that Delays Associated with SEQRA Review do not Violate Telecommunications Act

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Due to the proliferation of advanced mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, wireless service providers anticipate a significant increase in data traffic over their networks in the next few years. ...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA FCC Petitions Tracker

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Kelley Drye’s Communications Practice Group presents this tracker of active Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) petitions before the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”). With the recent increase in litigation...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The SEC has taken its first enforcement action against a hedge fund over its cryptocurrency investments—namely, falsely holding itself out as the “first regulated fund in the U.S. focused on crypto assets.” It also targeted a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #153 – SIM Card Swap Scams

I am speaking at a conference in one of my favorite cities (okay, it’s Chicago) and I was having dinner at the bar when the patron next to me asked me what I do for a living. ...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

iPhone Users Targeted by New Malware Campaign

Cisco Talos has discovered a new menace to iPhone users—a sophisticated malware campaign targeting iPhones to trick users into downloading an open-source mobile device management (MDM) solution that gives the hackers control...more

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