US Congress Data Privacy Act
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced the Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance (DATA) Privacy Act. The Act strengthens data privacy protections for American consumers while also ensuring corporations are focusing on implementing new data security standards and essential privacy protections. It also increases research into technologies that protect Americans’ privacy and shields small businesses from unnecessary regulation.
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Topics:
FTC,
National Consumer Protection Week,
Federal Trade Commission,
data security standards,
DATA Act
FTC Task Force to Monitor Technology Markets
The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition announced the creation of a task force dedicated to monitoring competition in U.S. technology markets, investigating any potential anticompetitive conduct in those markets, and taking enforcement actions when warranted.
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Topics:
FTC,
rate-of-return ILECs,
FCC A-CAM Support,
Texas Chapter 26 Rules
FTC CAN-SPAM Rule
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it has completed its first review of the CAN-SPAM Rule, which establishes requirements for commercial e-mail messages and gives recipients the right to opt out of receiving them. The FTC voted to keep the Rule with no changes. The Rule requires that a commercial e-mail contain accurate header and subject lines, identify itself as an advertisement, include a valid physical address, and offer recipients a way to opt out of future messages.
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Topics:
FTC,
Federal Trade Commission,
Department of Justice,
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim,
CAN-SPAM Rule,
DOJ,
Free Internet
Congress Questions FCC About Small Cell Appeals
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today requesting information about what communications may have taken place between FCC and FCC licensees relating to legal challenges of the FCC’s small cell order (Order).
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Topics:
FCC,
FTC,
FCC Chairman Pai,
Federal Trade Commission,
U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee,
28GHz Band Auction,
Federal Communications Commission,
FCC's Small Cell Order,
Wireless Carrier Location Sharing Practices
Today: FCC Announces Tentative Agenda For November Open Meeting, FTC Announces More Privacy and Data Security Hearings, White House Memo on Spectrum Strategy Released
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Topics:
FTC,
Spectrum,
FCC Open Meeting for November,
FTC Privacy and Data Security Hearings,
White House Memo
Today: FirstNet Announces More than 3,600 Public Safety Agencies Subscribed, FTC Announces PrivacyCon 2019 to Address Privacy and Data Security, and FTC EU-US Privacy Shield Settlement
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FTC,
Public Safety,
firstnet subscribers,
PrivacyCon,
EU-US Privacy Shield
Today: FCC Names New NANPA and PA, FCC’s Pai on Broadband Investment, FTC Cybersecurity Campaign
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Topics:
NANPA,
FTC,
FCC's Pai on Broadband Investment,
Alaska Rural Health Care,
Somos,
NIST Cybersecurity Framework,
Cybersecurity Campaign,
North American Numbering Plan Administrator,
Pooling Administrator
Today: California Net Neutrality Law Receives More Court Challenges, Canada Solidifies Relationship with European Regulators, Canada Partners with FTC on Unsolicited Calls
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Topics:
Net Neutrality,
FTC,
CRTC,
robocalls,
BEREC,
broadband development,
Unsolicited Calls,
automated dialing announcing device,
ADAD
Today: FCC Communications Status Report for Hurricane Florence, FCC Intermediate Provider Registry, FTC Returns more than $10 Million to NetSpend Customers
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Topics:
FTC,
Hurricane Florence,
FCC Intermediate Provider Registry,
NetSpend Customers,
prepaid card company