The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) voted today to adopt updated breach notification rules for telecommunications and interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) service providers (together, “carriers”), and telecommunications relay service (“TRS”) providers. Before this week, the FCC...

The Federal Trade Commission has had a busy month. Among other things, the FTC issued a final rule incorporating amendments to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”). Most amendments are effective February 12, 2016. As background,...

Yesterday, the Second Circuit found that the NSA’s bulk telephony metadata collection exceeds the statutory authorization of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act (50 U.S.C. § 1861).  The case was on appeal from the...