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Global Privacy & Security Compliance Blog
DIFC Issues New Direct Marketing and Electronic Communications Guidelines
The DIFC guidelines provide practical guidance for DIFC-registered entities engaging in electronic direct marketing, including useful “dos” and “don’ts”. By Brian A. Meenagh, Fiona M. Maclean, and Laura Holden What…
Technology's Legal Edge
The New European Electronic Communications Code (updated)
By Mike Conradi
[This is an updated version of my earlier blog piece from July to take account of revisions agreed through the legislative process since then. On 4th December the European Council concluded…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
FCC Approves Rule That Would Permit Cable Providers to Send More Notices via Email
In an effort to modernize communications, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) decided to allow cable operators to deliver general subscriber notices required under so-called Subpart T rules (47 CFR §§…
Technology Law Dispatch
Privacy and Electronic Regulations (Amendment) 2018
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Karen Lee Lust
The UK government has issued the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (Amendment) 2018 (ePrivacy Regs), which comes into force on 17 December 2018. The ePrivacy Regs amend the Privacy and…
Technology Law Dispatch
Proposed amendments to the ePrivacy Regulation
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, John O'Brien
On 10 July 2018, the Council of the European Union has published a draft of revisions to the proposed ePrivacy Regulation (ePR). The ePR is likely to come into force…
Israel Global Gateway
The new European Electronic Communications Code
By Israel Group
On June 28, 2018, an amended draft of the European Electronic Communications Code was published and it is expected to go to a final vote later this year. In this…
Labor Relations Update
You’ve Got Mail: NLRB Requests Briefing on Standard for Employee Use of Employer Owned Electronic Communication Systems
By Michael Lebowich, Jordan Simon
In what could signify the beginning of the end for Purple Communications, Inc., 361 NLRB 1050 (2014) and guaranteed employee access to Employer computer systems for union organizing purposes, the…
Texas Bar Blog
Confidentiality and E-Communications
By Brad Johnson
A prudent lawyer would no doubt avoid communicating sensitive client information in a crowded room where bystanders would be able to hear the conversation. However, in the rapidly changing technological…
Cleary Enforcement Watch
CLOUD Act Establishes Framework To Access Overseas Stored Electronic Communications
By Jonathan I. Blackman, Jared Gerber, Nowell D. Bamberger
The 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was signed by President Donald Trump on March 23, 2018, included a little-debated provision that revised portions of the 1986 Stored Communications Act (“SCA”)…
Cleary Cybersecurity and Privacy Watch
CLOUD Act Establishes Framework To Access Overseas Stored Electronic Communications
By Jonathan I. Blackman, Jared Gerber, Nowell Bamberger
The 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which was signed by President Donald Trump on March 23, 2018, included a little-debated provision that revised portions of the 1986 Stored Communications Act (“SCA”)…