UPDATES: On April 28, 2017, the App Association, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), CTIA and USTelecom have completed and filed the Industry Robocall Strike Force report. This report can be accessed at: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10428413802365/Ex%20Parte-Strike-Force-Report-2017-04-28-FINAL.pdf. On April 27, 2017, the App Association held a webinar to educate app developers and the [...]
App Association members increasingly need to be aware of (sometimes rapidly changing) legal and regulatory requirements and responsibilities as they look to expand to new markets to grow their customer base. As regulators around the globe continue to grapple with the growth of an internet-based economy powered by apps, data [...]
When Congress passed the Stored Communications Act (SCA) in 1986, storing e-mails on servers was very expensive. At that time, e-mail service providers generally deleted any stored content from their servers within 30 to 60 days to conserve storage space. As a result, Congress arguably viewed e-mails stored remotely for [...]
Last October, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reversed two decades of effective online privacy regulation when it finalized a new set of privacy rules. The rule was adopted by a 3-2 vote, with the two Republican commissioners dissenting strenuously. Both sides of this debate want the same thing: effective privacy [...]
On January 24th, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined the U.S. government’s request for an en banc rehearing of the Circuit’s landmark Microsoft vs. United States decision. This refusal to revisit its July 2016-issued decision affirmed that U.S. law enforcement cannot arbitrarily demand access to data stored [...]
