US Supreme Court narrows the TCPA’s autodialer definition in Facebook v. Duguid
1 Apr 2021
The US Supreme Court has held that equipment must use a random or sequential number generator to be an autodialer under the TCPA.
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The US Supreme Court has held that equipment must use a random or sequential number generator to be an autodialer under the TCPA.
CMN Resolution 4,893 sets cyber security policy and cloud outsourcing requirements for Brazilian financial institutions.
Brazil’s ANATEL Resolution 740/2020 now requires telecoms providers to adopt cyber security policies, manage risk and report incidents.
Portland, Oregon now bans private entities from using face recognition technology in places of public accommodation.
SolarWinds confirms its Orion software updates were trojanised, giving attackers access to US agencies and many other organisations.
North American electricity utilities must now manage cyber security risk in their supply chains under NERC CIP-013-1.
Brazil’s General Data Protection Law, the LGPD, is now in force, bringing GDPR-style obligations to organisations processing Brazilians’ data.
US federal agencies can no longer contract with entities that use Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision or Dahua telecoms and video surveillance equipment.
The CJEU has invalidated the EU–US Privacy Shield and set new expectations for Standard Contractual Clauses.
Attackers take over 130 Twitter accounts, including those of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Elon Musk, to promote a bitcoin scam.
Properly end-to-end encrypted ITAR technical data can now be sent or stored outside the US without being treated as an export.
Organisations holding New York residents’ private information must now maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards.