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Telecom privacy news
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- January 10 2011
Citing US Supreme Court precedent, the California Supreme Court has determined that police can search a mobile phone if it is found on a person who is taken into police custody
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- January 10 2011
On January 4, 2011, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the holding of a district court that AT&T, Inc. owes federal income tax on the federal and state universal service funds (USF) it received in 1998 and 1999, or roughly $500 million of income tax on over $1.5 billion of USF monies it received in those two years
In the courts
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- January 3 2011
On December 20, 2010, the United States District Court for the Central District of California awarded judgment in favor of T-Mobile and against the City of Agoura Hills in the parties' dispute over whether the City violated section 332 of the Telecommunications Act by denying T-Mobile's application for a conditional use permit
Telecom privacy news
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- January 3 2011
On December 23, 2010, a class action lawsuit was filed against Apple and five application developers (including Pandora and the Weather Channel) alleging that the companies illegally transmitted personal information garnered from iPad and iPhone users to advertising networks for tracking purposes
In the courts
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- December 27 2010
On December 20, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the ruling of the federal district court in Seattle that T-Mobile's prepaid wireless refill cards and accompanying cellular service did not infringe Israel-based Aerotel's 1987 patent for its system for making prepaid telephone calls
In the courts
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- December 17 2010
On December 16, 2010, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the Maryland Public Service Commission's determination that Verizon Maryland violated section 251 of the Communications Act and the FCC's implementing rules, and breached its interconnection agreement with CLEC Core Communications, by delaying Core's request for interconnection in Baltimore in 1999
In the courts
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- December 13 2010
On December 8, 2010, Intellectual Ventures, a firm formed by Microsoft's former CTO that acquires and licenses patents and other intellectual property, filed three separate patent-infringement actions in federal court in Delaware against a series of defendants claiming that they have knowingly infringed Intellectual Ventures' patents and refused to agree to reasonable licensing terms
In the courts
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- December 6 2010
On November 23, 2010, the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania denied a Pennsylvania township's motion to dismiss a zoning-related suit brought by wireless tower developer Global Tower LLC under section 704 of the Telecommunications Act
In the courts
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- November 29 2010
On November 19, 2010, the Court of Appeals of Ohio affirmed the grant of summary judgment to marketer Fernandez Discipline, LLC in connection with a fax recipient's suit alleging that Fernandez violated the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and Junk Fax Prevention Act (JFPA) by sending an allegedly unwanted fax
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- November 22 2010
On November 16, 2010, the US District Court for the Northern District of California granted a motion to dismiss filed by Google and HTC and a motion to compel arbitration filed by T-Mobile in a putative class action claiming that the Nexus One mobile phone (or Google Phone) is defective by not maintaining connectivity to T-Mobile's 3G mobile network
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