On September 27, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new privacy law that has significant repercussions for nearly every business in the United States that operates a commercial website or online service and collects “personally identifiable information” (which means, under the law, “individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected
September 2013
On the Horizon: FCC’s New Telemarketing Rules
By David Munkittrick on
On October 16, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) new rule implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) will go into effect.
These are rules with teeth, as the TCPA allows recovery of anywhere between $500 and $1,500 for each improper communication and does not require a showing of actual injury. This makes the TCPA a particularly attractive vehicle for class actions. Accordingly, we highlight some of the more salient changes in the new rule below.