News & Analysis as of October 15, 2024

Cell Phones

+ Follow

The United States Federal Communications Commission is an independent federal agency established by the Communications Act of 1934. The Commission is charged with regulating interstate and international... more +

Ring, Ring, it’s the FCC Calling- TracFone to Pay $16M to Settle FCC Investigation

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/2/2024

TracFone, the pre-paid phone company, recently settled with the FCC over allegations that the company failed to protect customer information during three different data incidents. According to the FCC, in each of the...more

AI-Generated Voice Calls: New Tech, Old Rules

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/28/2024

The FCC reminded companies this month that calls containing “artificial or prerecorded voices” are regulated by TCPA. And, that the FCC considers AI-generated voices to be just the kind of “artificial” that fall within the...more

Third Circuit Allows Putative TCPA Class Action to Proceed, Citing FCC Ruling

BakerHostetler on 10/29/2015

On October 23, 2015, the Third Circuit vacated a summary judgment decision in Yahoo, Inc.’s favor based on a recent Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) order that expanded the definition of an “autodialer” under the...more

Avoiding the Costly “Robo No-No”

Buchalter on 9/17/2015

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) was enacted to protect consumers from intrusive robocalls, but Congress probably did not foresee that it would result in a windfall for plaintiff’s lawyers. Virtually every...more

FCC: Carriers Must Protect Certain Data Collected on Mobile Handsets

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 7/10/2013

Aiming to “address the real privacy and security risks that consumers face when telecommunications carriers use their control of customers’ mobile devices to collect information about their customers’ use of the network,” the...more

5 Results

View per page