Up All Night: Will the TCPA Czar Be Ready for the Big CCPA Cross-Over Webinar Wednesday AM?

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So I didn’t realize this was going to be such a big deal.

Apparently many hundreds of people have already signed up to attend my huge (and getting huger by the minute) CCPA/TCPA cross-over webinar event sponsored by DNC.com and Contact Center Compliance.  The webinar is totally FREE–you’ll just have to agree that we can sell your personal information. Ha.

I will be presenting with legendary privacy guru Lydia de la Torre who will be joining us from Brussels and who will be doing her best to reign me in. It looks like everyone is planning to tune in for this thing–including a pack of privacy lawyers from rival law firms. Even the competition wants to know what the Czar has cooked up– fun!

But let’s be honest, compared to the TCPA, the CCPA is rather smallish. The rights are limited. The obligations are but a handful. And the defined terms are way better defined than anything in the TCPA . Plus the damages are downright reasonable compared to the massive exposure available in TCPA private rights of action. Frankly, I’m more worried about damage from people hacking the request verification process than anything else…

Have I said too much already?

Now I’m not saying the CCPA isn’t a big deal–it surely is– and I’m looking forward to clicking every “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” button I come across starting January 1, 2020. I’m just saying the TCPA remains a bigger deal (IMO), especially with Congress set to cement the statute as the nation’s crown jewel response to the ongoing robocall epidemic in this nation. So don’t go chasing waterfalls TCPAWorld, please stick to the murky rivers and mile-deep and wide lakes that you’re used to.

That said, do tune into the big webinar on Wednesday to get a breakdown of the CCPA as it applies to the TCPA that only I can provide. And then we’ll decide whether to launch CCPAWorld.com or not. 😉

In all seriousness, this webinar will be deeply informative but I’ll still make it as much fun as possible. Squire has always been your first choice for privacy law advice and class action litigation defense and I am happy to be a small part of such a powerful and capable platform.  Wednesday, November 20, 2019– 10 am pacific. Be there.

 

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Published by Eric J. Troutman

The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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