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Peter Swire Quoted In International Business Times on “Peeple” App Privacy Concerns

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Peter Swire, senior counsel in Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security Group and Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business professor was quoted in International Business Times regarding privacy compliance concerns for the soon-to-be rating app “Peeple.” The app, nicknamed “Yelp for Humans” by the media, will allegedly allow users to review other people […]

Swire Challenges Factual Basis of Schrems Decision

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In an article published today, Senior Counsel Peter Swire challenges the factual basis for the Advocate General’s recent opinion in the so-called “Schrems case” against the E.U.-U.S. Safe Harbor framework. Thousands of U.S. businesses rely on the Safe Harbor framework in order to support the transfer of data from the European Union. As previously discussed […]

Safe Harbor Framework in Jeopardy after Advocate General Decision

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Today, Advocate General Yves Bot advised the European Court of Justice that the US-EU Safe Harbor framework for the protection of trans-Atlantic transfers of personal data is invalid. The long awaited Opinion of the Advocate General in the so-called “Schrems case” (Case C-362/14 Maximilian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner) has now been published. The case […]

FCC Corrects July 10, 2015 TCPA Order

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This week, the FCC issued the following correction of its July 10, 2015 Order on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”): In Paragraph 100, the fourth sentence is corrected to read as follows: “It follows that the rule applies per call and that telemarketers should not rely on a consumer’s written consent obtained before the […]

FCC TCPA Order has Harsh Impact on Businesses

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On July 10, 2015, the FCC entered its long awaited Order on 21 petitions seeking clarification on a number of issues related to the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”).  A copy of the complete Order is available here https://www.fcc.gov/document/tcpa-omnibus-declaratory-ruling-and-order.  The Order is consistent with comments that the FCC made during its open hearing on […]