A federal court in Ohio has ordered Aaron Michael Jones, once considered the undisputed king of illegal robocalls responsible for billions of unwanted calls, to pay $83.7 million...

Pro se plaintiff Brandon Callier won a $23,405 default judgment against Cloud City Commercial Capital and its owner Rodney Salazar for TCPA violations and Texas Business and Commerce Code infractions stemming from unsolicited telemarketing calls. The Western District of Texas found both the company and its sole officer personally liable after they failed to respond to the lawsuit, demonstrating the severe financial consequences of ignoring TCPA litigation.

A federal court in New York approved an unprecedented 58.8% attorney fee award in a TCPA class action settlement, where lawyers received over $400,000 from a $710,000 settlement pot while 376 class members...

Courts nationwide are narrowing the scope of TCPA autodialer claims following the Supreme Court's Facebook decision, with a recent Missouri case demonstrating how allegations of repeat calls, spoofed numbers...

A federal court dismissed a TCPA class action lawsuit after repeat plaintiff James Shelton failed to provide evidence that his phone number was actually registered on the Do Not Call list.

A Delaware federal court dismissed a wellness retailer's indemnification counterclaim against a TCPA class plaintiff, ruling that merely displaying terms and conditions on a website does not establish...

A California federal court has dismissed a CIPA claim involving website tracking pixels, ruling that allegations of data collection and transmission—even in "real-time"—are insufficient without specific facts showing how and when a third party actually "reads" communications while they are "in transit." The decision provides critical guidance on the pleading requirements for turning website tracking into viable wiretapping claims under California's Invasion of Privacy Act.

California Senate Bill 690 has passed both legislative chambers and awaits Governor Newsom's signature, but the final version represents a dramatic scaling back from its original ambitious CIPA reform proposals.

The lead generation industry faces a crisis with fraud levels reaching 40%, meaning two out of every five leads sold may be fraudulent or generated through malicious means.

A California federal court dismissed privacy claims brought by a self-proclaimed online privacy tester who visited a workers' compensation insurance website without entering personal information.

A federal court examines whether plaintiffs adequately pleaded data privacy violations when a dental services website allegedly used third-party tracking tools to collect and transmit users' sensitive medical information to companies like Google and Facebook. The ruling clarifies critical pleading requirements for wiretapping claims under ECPA and CIPA, particularly regarding party exemptions and the need to allege third-party interception rather than mere tracking.

The 45th episode of Deserve to Win features an in-depth interview with Cyle Coffman, owner of Lead Opera and developer of Lead Proof, a revolutionary product designed to provide incorruptible proof of valid lead ownership.

The Northern District of California recently examined whether a property listing website's arbitration agreement was enforceable when a user claimed inadequate notice of the terms. The court analyzed the conspicuousness of Redfin's arbitration clause and the evidence proving user consent, ultimately determining whether clicking "Continue" on a website constitutes binding agreement to arbitrate disputes.

California's Court of Appeal has issued a tentative ruling in Variety Media v. Superior Court addressing whether CIPA's pen register statute applies to website tracking technologies, while the state legislature simultaneously passed SB 690 that would restrict who can bring such claims. The ruling provides crucial technical distinctions about what qualifies as a pen register under CIPA, potentially reshaping how website tracking litigation proceeds in California.

Non-bank lenders operating under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act face a critical compliance obligation many overlook: the FTC's Safeguards Rule requires reporting data breaches affecting 500 or more consumers within thirty days of discovery, and every report becomes publicly searchable online. What happens when your incident response plan collides with a mandatory public confession, and how can lenders prepare before the thirty-day clock starts ticking?

Gerald Lane, one of the nation's most prolific TCPA case filers with over 700 cases in two years, has been subject to 145 orders to show cause for failing to prosecute his cases in California's Central District. A federal judge has ordered Lane to explain his case management procedures and detail every OSC he has faced, raising questions about whether the courts have been too lenient with only one $250 sanction despite the extraordinary number of warnings.

A Nevada district court awarded just $1,000 after a five-year TCPA litigation involving four marketing calls, two of which were silent, demonstrating how individual TCPA cases can result...

What If Media Group faces a TCPA class action lawsuit over unwanted SMS messages, but the complaint reveals something intriguing: the company appears to be passing Caller ID information with text messages...

The Deserve to Win podcast unveils its brand new studio format, dubbed the "Thunderdome," promising weekly episodes covering critical TCPA, CIPA, and data privacy law updates.

Rich Kahn, CEO of Anura, reveals shocking statistics about fraud in the lead generation industry, claiming that up to 40% of leads may be fraudulent.