TIKTOK BAN UPHELD BY SCOTUS– IS TCR NEXT?

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So the US Supreme Court today upheld a law requiring that abysmal TikTok app to either by sold or face a nationwide ban.

The basis for the law is TikTok’s foreign ownership and the massive amount of data available to the Chinese government as a result.

I’m a huge fan of the ban, but mostly because I’m a geezer that thinks kids these days spend too much time staring at their phones.

Still, the national security concerns are very legitimate and resonate well beyond TikTok– for instance The Campaign Registry is still tracking most every 10DLC SMS campaign in the country and is still foreign owned.

I suspect new FCC Chairman Carr–with his focus on national security– and the lovely and talented Olivia Trusty (Trump’s new FCC pic) will take a very dim view of TCR’s foreign ownership and I suspect a similar sale or ban ruling may be in the cards.

We’ll see.

IS TCR NEXT TO FACE BAN?: With Tik Tok Facing Ban Unless it Sells to American Company is The Campaign Registry Next on the List?

For now love you all and happy weekend.

Chat soon.

 

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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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  1. I concur that Tik Tok is a national threat and should be banned. Now, if only we could come up with a way to block the offshore lead generators and call centers, and how much better TCPAWorld would be. The biggest violations of the TCPA always seem to have the fingerprints of an offshore lead generator or offshore call center all over them, but it is an American defendant that used the offshore folks that gets hauled into court, because the offshore folks are untouchable.

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    1. Let’s look at it this way. If Facebook was using its algorithm to modify & experiment on users emotions way back in 2014. Just how far has that technology developed in the last 10+ years?

      https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html

      Not saying there’s conclusive proof (yet) of TikToks use of said tech. But it has 170M + US users doom-scrolling all due to its secret algorithms, which China absolutely refuses to include in any potential US based sale…

      So you do the math…

      Oh, and not to mention under Chinese law any/all companies are legally obligated to turn over any/all data upon request..so there’s that…

      “Yes, under Chinese law, companies operating within China are generally obligated to provide data to the government upon request, particularly when deemed necessary for national security, public order, or economic management, with laws like the Data Security Law and Cybersecurity Law granting extensive access to data held by companies; this means companies can be required to turn over virtually any data if requested by authorities” Google it…

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