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...

For the first time since 2007, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has proposed updating its breach notification rules for telecommunications carriers. On January 6, 2023—after nearly a year of internal deliberation—the FCC issued a Notice...