---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20210119203627.F3E61790@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 20:36:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Canada: Employer Breached Employee's Right To Privacy By Reviewing Private Messages Sent From Work Laptop by James Cook Employees frequently use laptop computers provided to them by their employer for personal matters as well as employment-related tasks. To what extent can an employer review private messages sent from an employee's personal social media accounts if they are available on the shared computer? https://www.mondaq.com/canada/privacy-protection/1026080/employer-breached-employee39s-right-to-privacy-by-reviewing-private-messages-sent-from-work-laptop?email_access=on ***** Moderator's Note ***** As someone who has been employed to "tune" SpamAssassin filers, I can tell you that the great majority of corporate email should have been deleted before it was sent: not only do users give no thought to security or confidentiality, they also routinely offer opinions about the fashion| sexual|eating|dating|scheduling habits of their cow-orkers, along with sexist|racist|misogynistic|ignorant opinions about their friends, their national leaders, their football club, and/or their neighborhood swingers. When I become king, I will order that everyone with access to a computer be forced to read and re-read every email they ever sent, so as to inculcate a sense of caution and balance with regard to what they send off into the ether. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210119211257.B6001790@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:12:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC Sets Volume Limits For Some Prerecorded Calls To Home Phones by David M. Poell and Liisa Thomas The FCC recently adopted new rules that will limit the volume of calls that can be made to residential phones under certain TCPA consent exceptions. The new rules affect non-telemarketing calls that use an artificial or prerecorded voice. For years, companies have been able to make unlimited numbers of these calls to residential lines without the need for prior express consent if the exceptions applied. Beginning later in 2021, companies will need to follow volume limits for the following types of exempted calls, unless they have obtained prior express consent to make more calls. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1026724/fcc-sets-volume-limits-for-some-prerecorded-calls-to-home-phones?email_access=on ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210119210938.1EFBA790@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:09:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: District Court Finds Calls To Cell Phones Do Not Violate The TCPA's Prohibition Against Telephone Solicitations To Residential Telephone Subscribers by Mark D. Kundmueller and David Gettings In an Order issued December 16, 2020, the Eastern District of Texas adopted the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly C. Priest Johnson finding that calls placed to a cellular telephone do not qualify as calls to a residential telephone subscriber for purposes of § 227(c) of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"). https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1025110/district-court-finds-calls-to-cell-phones-do-not-violate-the-tcpa39s-prohibition-against-telephone-solicitations-to-residential-telephone-subscribers?email_access=on ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Thu, 21 Jan 2021