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FCC Considers Significant Overhaul of Nation’s Alert and Warning Systems

Wiley Rein LLP on 8/12/2025

On August 7, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to reexamine the nation’s warning and alert systems, including the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)...more

Privacy Tip #284 – Check Out EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense Playlist: Getting to Know Your Phone

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/13/2021

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) (www.eff.org) is a wonderful resource for privacy-related issues and concerns. I check its website frequently to make sure I am aware of the latest issues and concerns around privacy....more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/16/2018

Verizon's Protected Health Information Data Breach Report Concludes that Insiders Are Greatest Threat to Health Care Entities - Verizon recently issued its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, which is always...more

Privacy Tip #130 – Smartphones Targeted by Dark Caracal Attack

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 3/15/2018

There is a global malware campaign that is targeting mobile devices across the world. It is called Dark Caracal, which is believed to be sourced in Beirut by the Lebanese General Security Directorate. ...more

Privacy Tip #103 – Smartphone Replacement Parts Subject to Hacking

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 9/1/2017

You drop your smartphone and now there are a million cracks and you can hardly read your texts. Getting the screen replaced by the manufacturer of the phone is usually expensive and sometimes it is so expensive that it makes...more

Privacy TIp #86 - Android Users Vulnerable to Malware through Apps

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/4/2017

University of Michigan researchers have discovered that hundreds of applications in Google Play turn Android phones into a server that allow the user to connect the phone directly to a PC and leave open insecure ports...more

Let’s Go Crazy: The FTC and FCC Launch “Parallel” Investigations Into Security Updates of Mobile Communications Industry

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/17/2016

Earlier this week, the FTC and FCC announced “parallel” investigations into how carriers and mobile device makers release information on vulnerabilities, and how and when mobile security patches are distributed. The...more

Alphabet Soup and Data Security

Bilzin Sumberg on 10/19/2015

In the span of two days, mobile device users learned of two data breaches that could compromise their personal data. In one, Experian (a credit reporting agency) reported that it was hacked, potentially putting 15 million...more

Android smartphones Stagefright engine vulnerable

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/11/2015

It is being reported that 95% of all Android smartphones are vulnerable to being hacked with a text message, which is being called the “heartbleed for mobile.” According to security experts, the vulnerability exploits the...more

FCC: Carriers Must Protect Certain Data Collected on Mobile Handsets

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 7/10/2013

Aiming to “address the real privacy and security risks that consumers face when telecommunications carriers use their control of customers’ mobile devices to collect information about their customers’ use of the network,” the...more

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