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Consumer Consent
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Global Fintech & Digital Assets Blog
EDPB Issues New Guidance on Storing Credit Card Data for Future Purchases
Online retailers storing credit card data for the sole purpose of facilitating further purchases will likely need to obtain consumer consent. By Christian F. McDermott, Calum Docherty, and Victoria Wan…
AdLaw By Request®
NAI Issues New Guidance on Consumer Opt-In Consent for Sharing of “Sensitive” Data
The self-regulatory group, Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”), has issued new guidance, in which it mandates that its members obtain opt-in consent from consumers before collecting or using “sensitive” data for…
CommLaw Monitor
Podcast – Inside the TCPA: Consumer Consent
By Kelley Drye
“Inside the TCPA” offers a deeper focus on TCPA issues and petitions pending before the FCC. Each episode will tackle a single TCPA topic or petition that is in the…
Consumer Class Defense Blog
D.C. Circuit Rolls Back FCC’s 2015 TCPA Rules
By Anne Dunne, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
On March 16, 2018, the D.C Circuit issued a decision invalidating portions of the FCC’s 2015 TCPA Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order. Notably, the decision overturns as “arbitrary and capricious”…
Data Protection Report
FCC TCPA order partially upheld and partially set aside
On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its decision on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) omnibus order of 2015, relating to…
Communications, Media & Entertainment
You Can’t Always Get What You Want—Second Circuit Affirms Parties Can Bargain Away TCPA Right To Revoke Consent To Automated Calls
As the Rolling Stones famously sing, “You can’t always get what you want.” And in the ever treacherous world of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227,…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Telemarketers, Back to School, and Billing Follies
As the summer winds down so does our week, and excitement for the weekend builds. But for some, like this week's LXBN Leader Karen Rubin, excitement for blogging never goes…
Global Privacy & Security Compliance Blog
FCC Finds Fault in User Agreement and Issues Stern Guidance for Telemarketing Calls
By Alexander Stout, Matthew T. Murchison
June is proving to be a very active month for the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in construing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, including what sorts of consumer interactions are…
Inside Privacy
Compu-Finder Subjected to $1.1M Penalty, First Fine Under Canada’s New Anti-Spam Law
By Lala Qadir Canada’s telecommunications regulator, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), issued its first fine under a new anti-spam law. The CRTC alleged that Compu-Finder sent users emails…
Password Protected
Medical Billing Company Settles with FTC For Collecting Personal Health Information With Inadequate Consent
The FTC’s recent settlement with a medical online payments company and its former CEO highlights the importance of using clear and non-deceptive notices when asking consumers to share or provide…