Just because the number of TCPA and FDCPA claims is falling (
for now) is not necessarily a guarantee that the quality of remaining cases is any better, as evidenced by the Western District of Wisconsin’s recent decision in
Shannon v. State Collection Serv., No. 19-cv-983, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25358 (W.D. Wis. Feb. 10, 2021)
Jacob Shannon obtained medical treatment from the medical provider TriHealth. When providing consent for treatment, Shannon signed a Consent for Treatment form stating that “if at any time I provide a wireless telephone number at which I may be contacted, I consent to receive calls or text messages, including but not limited to communications regarding billings and payment for items and services.” Two months later, Shannon signed an “Involvement in Care” form and provided his cell phone number as his preferred contact number.
Dehradun, in a
middle class household, where his father was a
bank clerk, and mother, a homemaker. Ashish’s parents wanted the best for their children, sending him and his sister to a private school in the city, Cambrian Hall. A bright student, Ashish was on top of his class throughout high school, graduating as the
district topper.
“I always wanted to be a computer engineer and start my own company. I knew it from childhood, as early as ninth grade,”
he tells
residence on a hilltop in San Jose, California, where he has his own
tech startup called
Eltropy today.
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Technology is moving at the speed of light while we all continue to live in a largely virtual world where we interface with each other, online, everyday. Sprinkled in are continued concerns about how companies, large and small, collect, share and retain personal information and a patchwork of laws and regulations to govern personal data. You need only look to the rise in state data privacy laws to witness the continued wave of concern over personal data.
What is required for compliance with these data privacy laws and when a lack of compliance can lead to litigation may elude many. For example, what consent is needed and what is considered a sale of personal information are becoming broader and broader concepts. Consider the debates over what is a sale of personal data pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) or the breadth of class action litigation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Telephone Cons