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The Telecom Digest for Thu, 22 Apr 2021
Volume 40 : Issue 112 : "text" format

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Supreme Court Narrows Scope Of TCPA In Landmark Autodialer Ruling
Cybersecurity experts say elevating and supporting Black professionals is key to workforce shortage
NPR's Planet Money Podcast Calls On Dave Warfield For Episode On Robocalls

Message-ID: <20210420222845.76DFAE7D@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:28:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Supreme Court Narrows Scope Of TCPA In Landmark Autodialer Ruling By Geanette A. Foster, Esteban Morales, Matthew Novian, Russell Fox, and Joshua Briones In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court expressly overturned the Ninth Circuit's decision in Marks v. Crunch San Diego, LLC, by holding, "to qualify as an 'automatic telephone dialing system' under the TCPA, a device must have the capacity either to store a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator, or to produce a telephone number using a random or sequential number generator." https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1054728/supreme-court-narrows-scope-of-tcpa-in-landmark-autodialer-ruling-?email_access=on
Message-ID: <20210420182051.56DEFE7D@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:20:51 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Cybersecurity experts say elevating and supporting Black professionals is key to workforce shortage By Tonya Riley The United States is facing a critical shortage of cybersecurity professionals, one that government watchdogs and experts say is only expected to grow in the coming years. The shortage, which runs into hundreds of thousands of people, has spurred government officials to ramp up their efforts to address two of its driving factors: a lack of professional development opportunities and barriers surrounding diversity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/19/cybersecurity-202-cybersecurity-experts-say-elevating-supporting-black-professionals-is-key-workforce-shortage/ ***** Moderator's Note ***** My wife, who retired from Nursing, gets a great laugh out of stories like this one: she says it's the same froth and dung that hospitals and the AMA used to put out every few years, to lure a new generation of low-wage entry-level applicants in to the business so as to keep the old hands from getting too uppity with demands for more pay or (heaven forfend!) forming unions to keep some of the profits from marching off to the 0.01% of muckety-mucks. Bill Horne Moderator
Message-ID: <20210420223645.E6FABE7D@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 22:36:45 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: NPR's Planet Money Podcast Calls On Dave Warfield For Episode On Robocalls by David A. Warfield The historic rise and fall of St. Louis-based US Fidelis is a tale so legendary that the media keeps retelling it - often with the help of our bankruptcy co-chair Dave Warfield, who had a front-row seat for the legal drama as lead counsel for the creditors' committee in the US Fidelis bankruptcy. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1058810/npr39s-planet-money-podcast-calls-on-dave-warfield-for-episode-on-robocalls?email_access=on ***** Moderator's Note ***** Mr. Warfield is the Telecom Digest's leading cadidate for our new Subtlety-In-Marketing award. Bill Horne Moderator

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