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Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 29 2010

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court last week in City of Ontario v. Quon, Case 08-1332. EFF said that text messages should be entitled to constitutional privacy protections prohibiting warrantless law enforcement searches

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2010

On June 24, 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lended its support to Amazon.com in its lawsuit against the North Carolina Department of Revenue, which seeks to avoid providing its customers’ personally identifiable information (PII) relating to North Carolina residents’ purchases

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
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  • 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

Federal Trade Commission developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • 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

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • 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

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

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

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2010

On April 22, 2010, the FCC filed a petition for writ of certiorari seeking the Supreme Court’s review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s order in AT&T, Inc. v. FCC (No. 08-4024), in which the court held that the FCC misinterpreted the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when it ruled that AT&T, as a corporate entity, did not qualify for FOIA’s “personal privacy” exemption

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