Top 10 operational impacts of the GDPR: Part 1 – data security and breach notification Rita Heimes, CIPP/US The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/ec effective May 25, 2018. The GDPR is directly...

Your business voicemail message using the discrete “ringless” delivery method appears legal because the FTC and FCC have placed voicemail under the category of “Enhanced Information Services” and they have therefore chosen specifically not to regulate voicemail. See: “Ringless Voicemail Broadcasting for...

On February 22, 2016, the U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow of the Northern District of Illinois granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s claims based on violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).  In  Payton v. Kale...