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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

Walkers

(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

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 #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

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

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

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

Privacy Tip #130 – Smartphones Targeted by Dark Caracal Attack

There is a global malware campaign that is targeting mobile devices across the world. It is called Dark Caracal, which is believed to be sourced in Beirut by the Lebanese General Security Directorate. ...more

Dickinson Wright

The Numbers Do Lie: How Thieves Can Steal Your Cell Phone Number And Wreak Havoc On Your Life

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If you have an online account, you are familiar with the username/password method of user authentication. If you have been paying attention to recent news stories, however, you also recognize that this method of...more

Hogan Lovells

Companies today need to routinely assess their wireless network connectivity options related to their products and overall...

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In this hoganlovells.com interview, Hogan Lovells partner Trey Hanbury talks about the need for wireless carriers to broaden their offerings to meet the demands of an increasing number of niche markets. At the same time,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #103 – Smartphone Replacement Parts Subject to Hacking

You drop your smartphone and now there are a million cracks and you can hardly read your texts. Getting the screen replaced by the manufacturer of the phone is usually expensive and sometimes it is so expensive that it makes...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy TIp #86 - Android Users Vulnerable to Malware through Apps

University of Michigan researchers have discovered that hundreds of applications in Google Play turn Android phones into a server that allow the user to connect the phone directly to a PC and leave open insecure ports...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Mexico Courts Rule Telecom Agency's Interconnection Costs Model "Reasonable"

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Mexico's Telecom and Antitrust Federal Courts have issued three resolutions declaring that the model used by the Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (COFETEL) for calculating interconnection costs for fixed and mobile...more

Carlton Fields

Ninth Circuit Affirms Orders Denying Arbitration In Two Class Action Lawsuits Against Samsung

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The Ninth Circuit issued two similar opinions arising out of Samsung’s appeals of orders denying arbitration in two putative class actions filed against it. The claims against Samsung allege that the smartphone maker...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Indianapolis Colts Want Class Action on Recording Conversations Moved to Home Stadium

The Indianapolis Colts mobile app is alleged by a putative class to record fans’ private conversations. In the putative class action, the named plaintiff alleges that the mobile app secretly activates the smart phone’s...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

International Cellular Roaming – Am I Secure?

Many firms have strict international travel policies in relation to the use of technology. These policies tend to be more skewed towards countries with greater state control over communications networks and specifically the...more

Littler

California Legislative Update: Which Bills Made the Final Cut?

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Although the California Legislature sent Governor Jerry Brown bills on bed bugs, powdered alcohol, and making denim the official state fabric, the laws enacted in 2016 affecting the state’s private-sector employers were...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Lifeline Modernization Order

Last week, the FCC finally released the full, 224-page text of its controversial and anxiously awaited Lifeline Modernization Order, which was approved by a bitterly divided, party-line 3-2 vote on March 31. As we advised in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #31 – Landlines still a safe way to communicate but telephone companies want to drop them

I am pretty up to date on data privacy and security and technology, but the 60 Minutes episode this past Sunday night floored even me. If you didn’t see it, it is worth streaming. Basically, 60 Minutes showed Karsten...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Third Circuit Gives TCPA Autodialer Plaintiffs Staying Power

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently became the first federal appellate court to apply the Federal Communications Commission’s declaratory ruling that expanded the notion of what constitutes an...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Android smartphones Stagefright engine vulnerable

It is being reported that 95% of all Android smartphones are vulnerable to being hacked with a text message, which is being called the “heartbleed for mobile.” According to security experts, the vulnerability exploits the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Northern District of California Requires A Warrant to Access Cellphone Geographic Information

We previously reported that government access to cellphone geographic information or CSLI without a warrant has become a vigorous debate between the government, defense attorneys, and the federal bench. In a lengthy opinion,...more

Burr & Forman

No Privacy in Pocket-Dialing

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Most of us are aware of the increased risk of identity theft caused by the exponential growth of digital communications. But have we stopped to consider how the ease of communication we have today has significantly decreased...more

Lowndes

US Court of Appeals Rules Pocket Dial Calls Fail to Exhibit an Expectation of Privacy

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Florida Statute § 934.03 regarding interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications closely mirrors the United Code 18 U.S.C. § 2511(1)(a), which clearly sets forth the rights to privacy regarding...more

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