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Amendment to ANATEL's Cybersecurity Regulations - Incident Notification and Prior Evaluation of Suppliers

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The National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL) published Resolution No. 767 of August 2024 (the “Resolution”), which amended Resolution No. 740 of 2020, also known as the Cybersecurity Regulation Applied to the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

New Telecommunications and Data Protection Rules Taking Effect in Saudi Arabia

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA or Kingdom) is a sovereign state located in the Middle East between the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf (sometimes referred to as the Persian Gulf) and is one of the member states of the Gulf...more

Venable LLP

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

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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

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

FCC Updates Security Breach Rules for Telecommunications Service Breaches : Privacy Day Awareness

In the privacy world, confidential information relating to the nature, amount, or use of telecommunications services has always been subject to separate rules from other types of customer data. Prior to the advent of...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 2nd National Forum on Team Telecom - April 25th, Washington, DC

Gain critical strategies for managing reviews in the new Team Telecom environment. The American Conference Institute’s 2nd National Team Telecom Conference will take place in Washington D.C. on April 25, 2022, one day...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #292 – Some Mint Mobile Users’ Information Compromised

Mint Mobile notified a “small number” of customers last weekend that their personal information was compromised between June 8 and June 10, when a threat actor ported the phone numbers of those customers to another carrier...more

Spirit Legal

The end of dark patterns in “cookie walls”: German court bans deceptive designs

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Website operators are not permitted to use cookies and similar tracking technologies for analysis and marketing purposes without the informed consent of users, if this involves sharing personal data with third parties and...more

ArentFox Schiff

US Export Controls: Business as Usual?

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Turning to the business of exports from the United States, the next section is a must-read for any company doing business in the United States or from the United States. Or for that matter, any company competing with affected...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

You Have Been Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting (Or at Least, Inadequate)

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Article 45 of the GDPR allows the transfer of personal data from the EU to a third country when the third country ensures an “adequate level of protection” (adequacy decision). In determining “adequacy,” the GDPR provides...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver...

There is a lot currently happening in the European Union. From the latest European Court opinions with respect to merger clearance, dominance violations, data protection and state aid to Brexit, we’re checking in with our...more

Hogan Lovells

French legal and regulatory update - July/August 2019

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e - newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for April 2018. ...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Maine’s New Internet Privacy Law: What You Need to Know

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Last week, Maine enacted an internet privacy law requiring broadband internet service providers (ISPs) to obtain a customer’s express, affirmative consent before using their personal information, including browsing history....more

Hogan Lovells

Keeping the heat on cold (and warm) calls – new proposed law to restrict direct person-to-person telemarketing calls in Hong Kong

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On 9 April 2019, the Hong Kong Commerce and Economic Development Bureau (CEDB) announced a plan to amend the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (UEMO) to extend the regulatory framework to cover direct person-to-person...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Denmark DPA Rules on How GDPR Applies to Voice Recordings

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The Denmark Data Protection Authority (DPA) ruled on April 11, 2019 that affirmative consent is required when companies record customer telephone calls. ...more

Hogan Lovells

GMCQ: Global Media, Technology and Communications Quarterly - Autumn/Winter 2018

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In this edition we survey the latest legal and regulatory developments across the global media and communications industry. We have a particular focus on new privacy laws. ...more

Hogan Lovells

Update: Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law

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On June 12, 2018, the Vietnamese National Assembly passed the Law on Cybersecurity (the “Cybersecurity Law“), which will take effect on January 1, 2019....more

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US Government Seeks Stakeholder Comments on Future Internet Governance Privacy and Emerging Technology Priorities

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On June 5, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), within the US Department of Commerce, issued a notice requesting “comments and recommendations from all interested stakeholders on its...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Chalk up a major win for Carl Icahn. Icahn has forced Xerox’s CEO, Board Chair, and 5 other board members out of their jobs as part of a push by activist investors. The shake-up will jeopardize the company’s $6.1 billion...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Some inside baseball on how Sprint and T-Mobile are likely to try to convince suspicious regulators that their merger is a good thing. Hint: it has a lot to do with China and 5G....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #96 – Consider “Who Has Your Back” as Your Next Summer Read

As you head to the beach or hammock for a bit of R+R this summer, here is one that you might want on the reading list. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been publishing a report entitled “Who Has Your Back”...more

Jones Day

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 14

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New York Attorney General Announces Record Number of Data Breach Notices in 2016 - On March 21, 2017, the New York Attorney General's Office announced that it received 1,300 reported data breaches in 2016—a 60 percent...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

To DPO or Not to DPO: Revised Guidance Issued on Data Protection Officers Under GDPR

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If you are a hospital processing European Union (EU) patient data, if you maintain EU customer loyalty programs, or if you engage in behavioral advertising of EU citizens, you may be required to appoint a data protection...more

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China's draft data localisation measures open for comment

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On 11 April 2017 the Cyberspace Administration of China published a circular calling for comments on its draft Security Assessment for Personal Information and Important Data Transmitted Outside of the People’s Republic of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Congress, FCC Weigh Measures to Repeal ISP Privacy Rules

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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Will European Privacy in the United States be Trumped?

In recent weeks there has been significant debate among commentators about whether Europeans’ privacy is becoming less protected in the US and what that may mean for the privacy protection arrangements between the EU and the...more

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