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Earlier this week, the Department of Justice filed for temporary restraining orders and injunctions in two different cases against multiple telecom

Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and...

Key Wireless Deadlines - Treasury Seeks Comment on Interim Final Rule Implementing Broadband Funding: Last month, the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) issued an Interim Final Rule...

BakerHostetler 2021 Data Security Incident Response Report – Disruption and Transformation - The report provides risk mitigation and compromise response intelligence from more than...

In 2019, Congress passed the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act—or TRACED Act (Act)—with the goal of complementing the now decades-old Telephone Consumer...

Key Wireless Deadlines NIST Requests Comment on its Mobile Device Security Practice Guide: The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) seeks comment on a draft of NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-22, titled “Mobile Device Security: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).” The goal of this Practice Guide was to provide an example solution to help organizations use both a standards-based approach and commercially available...

by Christopher Hutton Print this article The Federal Communications Commission recently announced new efforts that would require phone service providers to be held accountable for allowing robocalls. People across the United States are reporting a steady increase in automated phone calls to an assortment of customers. Some of these calls come from legitimate businesses. However, others often look to scam consumers for money or private information. Some studies estimate that users r...

Fairfax County gets the most phone call scams in America Published Wednesday, Apr. 21, 2021, 12:38 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© blachkovsky – stock.adobe.com) Let’s Talk, a phone recommendation website, surveyed phone scams in the United States, using two metrics – the monthly number of robocalls per person and the mon...

Delegation for 3.16.21: DST — PRO Act — border justice — Haiti protection — OK boomer Daylight food fight Sleepy Americans across the nation woke up Sunday wondering where they lost an hour. As Floridians begrudgingly shifted onto daylight saving time, delegation members started what’s almost become a twice-a-year ritual of lobbying to stop the changing of clocks. Sen. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott last week joined with a bipartisan group of Senators filing legislation ...

Monday, February 22, 2021 On December 30, 2020, the FCC issued a Report and Order (the December 2020 FCC Order) to implement Section 8 of the Pallone-Thune Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED Act). The December 2020 FCC Order contains a critical internal inconsistency that has caused significant confusion regarding the level of consent required for certain prerecorded informational calls to residential landlines. As discussed below, the inconsist...