Arent Fox LLP | USA | 21 Oct 2013
The next Open Meeting of the FCC will be held October 28, 2013. The Final Agenda contains three items: the Rural Call Completion Report and Order and…
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 9 Sep 2013
Welcome to the latest edition of Arent Fox's This Week in Telecom, our weekly newsletter designed to keep you apprised of recent developments in…
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 22 Jul 2013
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Announcements The next meeting of the Consumer Advisory Committee will be August 2, 2013, 9:00 am to 4:00…
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 30 May 2011
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., Chair of the new Senate Privacy Subcommittee, last week asked Apple and Google to ensure that their “app” stores offer “clear, understandable privacy policies.”
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 23 May 2011
On May 18, 2011, Sen. John "Jay" Rockefeller IV, Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, sent letters to Apple, Google, and the Association for Competitive Technology asking whether applications running on their mobile platforms comply with COPPA.
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 16 May 2011
This past week, Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Tex., co-chairs of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, released a discussion draft of online privacy legislation aimed at protecting children.
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 9 May 2011
In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that employees may be held liable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. 1030 et seq., when they steal or remove electronic files or data in violation of their employers’ written computer-use policies.
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 11 Apr 2011
On April 1, 2011, e-mail-marketing company Epsilon reported that it detected an "unauthorized entry" into its email system and discovered that email addresses and names belonging to a "subset" of its clients had been exposed to attackers.
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 4 Apr 2011
Reps. Joe Barton, R-Tex., and Edward J. Markey, D- Mass., Co-Chairs of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, have asked the chief executive officers of AT&T, Inc., Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp., and T-Mobile USA, Inc. questions about how they store, collect, and disclose wireless location data.
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 14 Mar 2011
The US Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved S. 193, the USA PATRIOT Act Sunset Extension Act of 2011, to modify and reauthorize three surveillance-related provisions of the Patriot Act.