Search results
Order by most recent / most popular / relevance
Results: 1-10 of 13
In the courts
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- June 18 2012
On June 12, 2012, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed several claims in the putative nationwide class action brought against Apple and various mobile-industry interests including Google and AdMob alleging violations of consumer privacy
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- March 19 2012
Thirteen plaintiffs have filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, for alleged privacy violations by 18 companies that make popular mobile apps
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and privacy regulation
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- December 26 2011
On December 12, 2011, the FTC, through the Department of Justice, filed a complaint against a group of companies that allegedly made illegal robocalls, called phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, and masked Caller ID information, all in violation of the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule
In the courts
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- December 26 2011
On December 21, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted the State of Indiana’s motion for a stay of a district court’s September 2011 order enjoining the enforcement of its Automated Dialing Machine Statute that prohibits out-of-state robocalls
Federal Trade Commission developments
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- May 16 2011
On May 12, 2011, the FTC announced that it had settled a case it brought against Playdom, Inc., a developer of online multi-player games, alleging that Playdom violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by illegally collecting and disclosing personal information from hundreds of thousands of children under age 13 without their parents’ prior consent
In the courts
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- March 7 2011
On March 1, 2011, the United States Supreme Court reversed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to hold that the FCC was correct in refusing the apply the "personal privacy" exemption of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to AT&T
In the courts
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- January 24 2011
On January 19, 2011, the US Supreme Court heard oral argument in FCC v. AT&T, which arises out of AT&T’s claim that the FCC could withhold documents otherwise responsive to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on the ground that AT&T qualifies for FOIA’s “personal privacy” exemption
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- 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
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- USA
- -
- 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
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
- -
- Canada, United Kingdom, USA
- -
- October 12 2010
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed three lower court rulings concluding that federal agents' computer searches relating to the use of steroids in professional baseball violated the Fourth Amendment
Current Search
- Workarea - Information Technology
- Workarea - Telecommunications
- Workarea - Litigation
- Author - Stephanie A. Joyce
Suggested Facets
Author
- Alan G. Fishel (9)
- J. Isaac Himowitz (1)
- Jason A. Koslofsky (1)
- Jeffrey E. Rummel (6)
- Jonathan E. Canis (10)
- Joseph P. Bowser (3)
- Michael B. Hazzard (10)
- Ross A. Buntrock (13)
- Stephen Thompson (1)