The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Takes Effect January 1, 2020 – Is Your Company Ready to Comply?
Top 10 Operational Impacts of the California Consumer Privacy Act The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will transform the way businesses collect, use, store, disclose, and otherwise handle customer personal information. The CCPA could affect your business if...
FCC to Outlaw Discriminatory 911 Fees On VoIP Providers
The FCC is slated to adopt an order barring state, local and Tribal 911 entities from assessing 911 fees on VoIP enterprise services that exceeds the total amount assessed for providing the same level of outbound calling capacity using traditional telephone services....
Mozilla v. FCC equals Reversal of Title II Net Neutrality Regulations
IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS (Mozilla v. FCC): D.C. Circuit Decision Upholding FCC Reversal of Title II Net Neutrality Regulations By Drew Clark, Of Counsel at Marashlian & Donahue, PLLC The End of the Debate? Wishful Thinking! Just the Beginning of Yet Another Chapter as...
FCC Implements New Processes for Collecting Broadband Deployment Data; Overhauls Form 477
By Jonathan Marashlian August 6, 2019 The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) Thursday adopted a Report and Order and Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Order & NPRM”) aimed at improving the accuracy of broadband data it currently collects biannually via...
FCC Adopts New Rules Banning Malicious Spoofing of Text Messaging and International Calls
By Jonathan Marashlian August 8, 2019 The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), in its recently released Second Report and Order (“Order”) respecting the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2009 (the “Act”), implements new rules that prohibit malicious caller ID spoofing...
FCC Imposes New Obligations on Providers to Strengthen Access to E911 Emergency Services
By Jonathan Marashlian August 9, 2019 In an effort to facilitate access to emergency services, the FCC has recently released a final order adopting rules to help ensure that people who call 911 from multi-line telephone systems (MLTS), which commonly serve hotels,...