---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191121210757.GA14848@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:07:57 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Is An Advertiser Responsible For False Advertising If A Word Has Two Meanings? by Jeffrey A Greenbaum What do you do when a term that you are planning to use in advertising has more than one meaning? Are you responsible for false advertising if consumers misunderstand the claim? That was the one of the issues in a recent lawsuit brought against computer storage device maker Sandisk. Sandisk sells memory storage devices, such as flash drives, with different storage capacities. When promoting a storage device, Sandisk tells consumers how many gigabytes of storage each device has - such as 256 GB, 128 GB, 64 GB, etc. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=858182&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191120171549.GA4414@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:15:49 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: CA Governor Signs Consumer Call Protect Act -- TCPA Enforcement Efforts May Follow by Diana Elizabeth Schaffner and Shelly A. Kim On October 2, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 208 ("SB 208"), the Consumer Call Protection Act of 2019. The law seeks to protect consumers from fraudulent robocalls. SB 208 adds Section 2893.5 to the Public Utilities Code, which requires telecommunications service providers, on or before January 1, 2021, to implement Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) and Secure Handling of Asserted information using toKENs (SHAKEN) protocols, or comparable or superior alternative technology, to verify and authenticate caller identification for calls carried over an internet protocol network. A "good faith effort" to comply with this requirement will be a defense to a claim for violating Section 2893.5. http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=861720&email_access=on -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <9240C185-3EC8-4B5C-907C-CE186DA66C02@roscom.com> Date: 21 Nov 2019 14:30:06 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Robocall Scams Exist Because They Work -- One Woman's Story Shows How Robocall Scams Exist Because They Work - One Woman's Story Shows How A caller impersonating an FBI agent persuaded Nina Belis to drain close to $340,000 from her bank accounts By Sarah Krouse Nov. 21, 2019 10:46 am ET https://www.wsj.com/articles/robocall-scams-exist-because-they-workone-womans-story-shows-how-11574351204 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <B61DFD02-5619-4FB8-942F-BE2362F643DC@roscom.com> Date: 20 Nov 2019 20:01:02 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Cops put GPS tracker on man=E2=80=99s car, charge him wi= th theft for removing it Cops tracked the man's car because they suspected he was dealing meth. By Timothy B. Lee Back in 2012, the US Supreme Court ruled that it's illegal for the police to attach a GPS tracking device to someone's car without a warrant. But what if you find a GPS tracking device on your car? Can you remove it? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/man-charged-with-theft-for-removing-police-gps-tracker-from-his-car/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sun, 24 Nov 2019