The FTC has made news recently with its recent enforcement activity regarding companies’ alleged disclosures of consumer health data, as detailed in our recent post FTC to Advertisers: We’re tracking Your Use of Health...more
The proliferation of privacy-related law suits filed against a wide range of companies related to website tracking/analytics will continue in 2023, joining robocall and biometric privacy disputes.
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1/30/2023
/ Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Class Action ,
Data Privacy ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Text Messages ,
Unsolicited Phone Calls ,
Video Privacy ,
Video Privacy Protection Act ,
Web Tracking ,
Webinars ,
Website Owner Liability ,
Websites
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
2/11/2022
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
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
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
12/1/2021
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Cell Phones ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Revocation ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
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
11/9/2021
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Debt Collection ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
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
10/1/2021
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Debt Collection ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
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
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
Over the last few months, a wave of consumers have filed putative class action complaints against a long list of consumer-facing website owners/operators and their software providers alleging invasion of privacy rights under...more
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
4/29/2021
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Cell Phones ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
If you communicate with clients and prospects through phone call, text message, or fax campaigns, you are certainly familiar with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that applies to these and other areas of direct...more
4/23/2021
/ Best Practices ,
Chief Compliance Officers ,
Chief Privacy Officer ,
Class Action ,
Corporate Strategy ,
Defense Strategies ,
Direct Marketing ,
Risk Mitigation ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages ,
Unsolicited Faxes ,
Unsolicited Phone Calls ,
Webinars
On April 1, 2021, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system (“ATDS”) under the TCPA is limited by the plain grammar of the statute itself. The Court, in a...more
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
For the second time this year, the TCPA came before the Supreme Court via teleconference oral argument in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, et al, Case No. 19-511 (2020). The Supreme Court’s disposition of Facebook’s petition is...more
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
11/17/2020
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Cell Phones ,
Debt Collection ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
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
10/20/2020
/ American Bankers Association ,
ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Debt Collection ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Popular ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Revocation ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
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
9/29/2020
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Debt Collection ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
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
8/21/2020
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Cell Phones ,
Debt Collection ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
It has been more than two years since the D.C. Circuit found the Federal Communications Commission’s (the “FCC”) discussion of predictive dialers and other equipment alleged to be an automatic telephone dialing system...more
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
7/16/2020
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Cell Phones ,
Debt Collection ,
Declaratory Rulings ,
FCC ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Robocalling ,
TCPA ,
Telecommunications ,
Telemarketing ,
Text Messages
On July 9, 2020, the Supreme Court granted Facebook’s petition for certiorari in a case with potentially broad implications for both class action litigation and business communications with their current and potential...more
7/13/2020
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Certiorari ,
Data Storage ,
Facebook ,
Facebook Inc v Duguid ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
Random or Sequential Number Generator ,
SCOTUS ,
Split of Authority ,
TCPA
On July 6, 2020, in a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the TCPA, but severed as unconstitutional the government debt exception. William P. Barr et al. v. American Association of Political...more
7/9/2020
/ ATDS ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
Barr v American Association of Political Consultants Inc ,
Cell Phones ,
Compelling Governmental Interest ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Content-Based Restrictions ,
Debt Collection ,
Exceptions ,
Federal Bans ,
First Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Government Debt-Exception ,
Robocalling ,
SCOTUS ,
Severability Doctrine ,
Strict Scrutiny Standard ,
TCPA
On the same day that the FCC set a call blocking declaratory ruling for vote at its July 2020 Open Meeting, the FCC’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau issued rulings in two long-pending petitions for clarification of...more
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