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Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

FCC Fines Major Wireless Carriers For Data Privacy Violations

On April 29, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced that it had fined the nation’s largest wireless carriers a total of $196 million for violating consumer data privacy rights. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200M for Sharing Location Data with Third Parties

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that it has levied almost $200 million in fines against “the nation’s largest wireless carriers for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information without...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Breaking Down The New FCC Lead Generation Rules

On Dec. 13, 2023, in a 4-1 vote, the Federal Communications Commission finalized new rules to close the so-called lead generator robocall and robotexts loophole, marking a significant paradigm shift in lead generation...more

Cozen O'Connor

CFPB Proposes Financial Data Rights Rule to Promote Open Banking

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The CFPB proposed a new rule to encourage a shift towards open and decentralized banking by requiring depository and nondepository entities to make available to consumers and authorized third parties certain data relating to...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Administration Poised to Act on “Internet of Things” Devices

The FCC and House of Representatives have begun discussions on the safety and security of IoT modules from China. The FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to create an Internet of Things (IoT) cybersecurity labeling...more

Wiley Rein LLP

FCC Foreign Government-Sponsored Programming Rule Update and Important September 15 Compliance Deadline

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On September 6, 2022, the D.C. Circuit issued its mandate in NAB v. FCC, causing the vacatur of the requirement that broadcasters independently verify whether parties leasing time on their stations are “foreign governmental...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

FCC Enforcement Bureau Settles with CenturyLink Over Alleged Unauthorized Third-Party Charges

On August 13, 2019, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau announced that it settled a nearly three-year long investigation into whether CenturyLink included unauthorized charges from third-party service providers on customer bills....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

TCPA Tea Leaves: Here’s Our Best Guess at How the FCC’s New Recycled Number Database Will Work and What It Will Mean for the...

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Tomorrow the FCC is set to meet and, presumably, to approve a Second Report and Order creating a database of re-assigned numbers... The database is being created to help callers avoid calling wrong numbers. When a phone...more

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Conduit or Can’t Do It?: Platform Providers Suddenly in a Bind When Customers Use Their Products to Violate the TCPA

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Not long ago I would have told you that platform providers are “fine” when asked whether they could be held liable solely for the unlawful actions of customers using their products. Just like Verizon is never liable when a...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Secret Limitation?: Court Denies Summary Judgment to TCPA Defendant Who Couldn’t Prove Customer Had Full Authority to Provide...

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Happy Father’s Day TCPAland! TCPA defendants have enough to deal with without having to worry about secret limitations on their ability to call phone numbers supplied by customers. But, oh well!...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

State AGs seek to intervene in CFPB enforcement action to modify settlement terms

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The Attorneys General for the states of Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, and Vermont recently took the unusual step of filing a joint motion to intervene to modify the settlement terms of a CFPB enforcement action....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FCC Proposes Sweeping Broadband Privacy Rules

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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

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In Case You Missed It: Launch Links - Week of January 24, 2016

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Some interesting links we found across the web this week: - Last-minute change to privacy bill adds tension to US-EU negotiations - Privacy law is easy for companies to overlook until a problem arises, and even more so...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Dialing-In: TCPA Hot Issues for 2016

The year 2015 saw a continued wave of class action filings under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). However, unsettled law continues to place a compliance burden on companies that communicate with consumers by...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

TCPA Connect - January 2016

Manatt Defeats Motion for Class Certification in TCPA Complaint Against Network Telephone Services - A team of Manatt litigators secured a major victory for Network Telephone Services, Inc., on Jan. 12, 2016, in the U.S....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

TCPA Connect - September 2015

No Need to Wait for the U.S. Supreme Court—Seventh Circuit Rules on Mooting Offers in TCPA Suits - The latest court to weigh in on an offer of judgment in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act Suit: the Seventh Circuit...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Advertising Law - August 2015 #4

In Case You Missed It: Possible Jail Time for TCPA Violations, Microsoft Gets Slammed With Solicitation Scam Class Action, and 'Do Not Disturb' Technology Gets Pushed on FCC - The world of the Telephone Consumer...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Positives and Negatives of the FCC’s Recent Omnibus Order on the TCPA

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On Friday, July 10, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an omnibus, Declaratory Ruling and Order (FCC Ruling) seeking to clarify certain ambiguities in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Viewing Unsolicited Fax Not Required for TCPA Standing

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The Sixth Circuit recently held that standing to sue under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) does not require the plaintiff to have printed, or even viewed, a fax advertisement that violates the TCPA. The Court...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - April 2015

In This Issue: - DOJ Issues Cyber Preparation and Response Guidance - RadioShack’s Plan to Auction Customer Data Highlights Issues Over Treatment of Such Data as an Asset - Google v. Vidal-Hall and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC Clarifies Companies' Liability for Third-Party Marketer TCPA Violations

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a long-awaited declaratory ruling governing when a company is liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and FCC telemarketing and autodialing rules, for...more

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Recent Trends in Class Actions for Telephone and Fax Solicitation and Advertising

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Class actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227, continue to be an active trend in consumer and privacy class action litigation. The TCPA, which was historically called the "fax blast"...more

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Recent Trends in Class Actions for Telephone and Fax Solicitation and Advertising

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Class actions under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), 47 U.S.C. § 227, continue to be an active trend in consumer and privacy class action litigation. The TCPA, which was historically called the “fax blast”...more

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