December 21, 2021
The consumer privacy law landscape continued to expand in 2021, with two more U.S. states and China notably joining the fray, while the U.S. Supreme Court significantly narrowed the path for bringing robocall and other statutory privacy claims to federal court.
July 02, 2021
State legislatures and the U.S. Supreme Court left their marks on the privacy landscape in the first half of 2021, with Virginia and Colorado adding to the growing state privacy law patchwork and the nation's high court delivering a pair of rulings that are expected to limit statutory privacy claims.
April 02, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to narrowly define the types of dialing equipment covered by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act is set to eviscerate the swell of litigation that has emerged under the statute, but it could also provide ammunition for Congress to craft even broader robocall restrictions.
April 01, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Facebook's argument that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act narrowly covers only random-fired calls and texts to cellphones, in a ruling that's expected to significantly reduce the swell of class action litigation that's emerged under the statute.
December 21, 2020
The past year has delivered big changes in the privacy and cybersecurity world, from the COVID-19 pandemic spurring a spike in ransomware attacks to an uptick in data collection questions to voters in California backing changes to enhance the state's landmark privacy law.
December 08, 2020
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared receptive to Facebook's argument that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act narrowly prohibits only random-fired automated calls and texts to cellphones, although at least two conservative justices seemed concerned that Congress may have intended for the ban to sweep more broadly.
December 07, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court is gearing up to hear arguments Tuesday on the litigation-fueling question of what qualifies as an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, in a fight that's poised to pit semantics against the public's growing disdain for robocalls.
December 04, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear its final cases of 2020 starting Monday, including a $250 million lawsuit against Germany over art stolen by Nazis, a high-profile Facebook privacy case, and a separation-of-powers showdown involving a housing regulator.
November 17, 2020
Facebook and the federal government made their final pitches ahead of oral arguments next month for why the U.S. Supreme Court should narrowly define what qualifies as an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, arguing that a broad reading would fly in the face of both grammar and the statute's purpose to stop random-fired calls.
October 23, 2020
More than three dozen states on Friday called on the U.S. Supreme Court to broadly define an autodialer under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to mean any device that can store and dial numbers automatically, as the justices tackle Facebook's bid to erase class claims over its security texts.