Administrative/Regulatory
Nov. 18, 2014
Data security has a new sheriff in town
In October, the FCC issued a notice of apparent liability finding that telephone carriers had violated the Communications Act by storing data on unsecured servers.
Mary Ellen Callahan
The Walt Disney CompanyEmail: mary.ellen.callahan@disney.com
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In October, the Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of apparent liability, or NAL, provisionally finding that TerraCom Inc. and YourTel America Inc. - telephone carriers that participate in the FCC's Lifeline program - had violated provisions of the Communications Act by storing data on unsecured servers. The FCC declared that the two companies had "egregiously" and "willfully and repeatedly" violated the law by faili...
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