Balough
December 15, 2013
A Sunday New York Times article cited Cheryl Dancey Balough’s recent law review article concerning privacy issues associated with smart electric meters. The Times article published on May 29, 2011, “Promise and Peril in Utilities Smart Grid,” by David Greising, discussed the fact that smart electric meters can collect information concerning a household’s individual activities. […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has obtained its first penalty against a company assisting and facilitating in violating the Do Not Call law. Under a settlement, Entrepreneurial Strategies, Ltd. a Georgia company, and its chief executive Dale Allison Jr. are to pay the FTC $13,454.71 in civil penalties for violating the “assisting and facilitating” provision […]
Balough
December 12, 2013
DIRECTV and its telemarketers were a little too direct-calling persons who had registered for the federal Do Not Call list. As a result, the satellite television provider will pay a record fine of $5.3 million to the Federal Trade Commission. The company agreed to stop using telemarketers who violate the FTC’s rules regarding the Do […]
Balough
December 12, 2013
Spam from a mortgage company sent to a cell phone is a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA), the Arizona Court of Appeals found. Rodney L. Joffee received a text message on his cell phone from Acacia Mortgage Corporation advertising low home mortgage rates. He sued Acacia arguing that the message […]
Balough
December 7, 2013
The Federal Communications Commission exceeded its authority when it issued rules requiring digital television receivers and other devices to contain technology that prohibited the redistribution of the broadcast. The technology is known as the broadcast flag. It is a digital code embedded in a DTV broadcast stream that prevents digital television reception equipment from redistributing […]
