- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Adrianne Appel2024-07-10T15:46:00
Sorenson Communications agreed to pay $34.6 million and implement a comprehensive compliance program to settle allegations levied by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that its subsidiary illegally retained call content of users who relied on captions to make and receive calls.
CaptionCall, a Sorenson unit, held onto data for up to three years of users who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have speech disabilities, through the Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IPCTS), the FCC said Tuesday in a press release.
The company also submitted inaccurate information to the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) Fund Administrator, the FCC said.
2024-10-30T13:55:00Z By Adrianne Appel
In an effort to streamline the enforcement of California’s stringent privacy rules, the Federal Communications Commission has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the California Privacy Protection Agency.
2024-07-24T13:19:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Eight large companies, including Mastercard and JPMorgan Chase, have been ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to provide detailed reports about their possibly secret use of artificial intelligence to track customers and use the information to set prices.
2024-04-29T20:30:00Z By Adrianne Appel
The Federal Communications Commission fined telecommunications giants T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon a total of approximately $196 million for allegedly selling customers’ location data to third parties without consent.
2025-06-25T16:29:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In May, three commissioners for the Consumer Product Safety Commission were abruptly fired by President Donald Trump and sued for their jobs shortly after. A federal judge has ruled that the commissioners should be reinstated, although it’s unclear whether that ruling may itself be reversed.
2025-06-19T19:28:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Fraud now accounts for around 40% of all crime in the U.K., posing a major problem for banks and consumers. Ted Datta, head of industry practice for financial crime compliance at Moody’s, warns that the risk is growing fast.
2025-06-16T18:04:00Z By Neil Hodge
Trying to put rules in place to oversee an industry that has grown largely outside of regulation is not without serious challenges. But the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) latest consultation aims to attract industry views about how some key aspects of crypto trading should be regulated ahead of planned ...
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