Our nationally recognized Internet, Communications & Data Protection Group offers the full complement of counseling, regulatory and litigation services for clients that store and transmit information, including data, voice, sounds and images. We work with clients who run and manage Internet-based businesses, ISPs, Internet Portals, social networking sites, interactive video games and traditional communications networks to minimize their business risks.
On the Internet side, we help clients by providing practical business-friendly advice on issues such as: transmitting and storing user-generated content, DMCA implementation and compliance, conducting email marketing consistent with CAN-SPAM, complying with laws pertaining to gambling, and adult-content. We also help service providers on government compliance issues that arise under ECPA, CALEA, FISA, Cable and Wiretap Acts and in implementing Wiretap, FISA, Pen Register and Trap & Trace Orders and NSLs.
We also counsel communications providers on wireline, wireless and VoIP regulations. We provide strategic advice on consumer protection regulations for marketing and billing services, such as TCPA and truth-in-billing requirements, as well as regulatory fee requirements, including USF compliance, auditing and enforcement. We advise clients on CALEA and CPNI privacy regulations and assist clients in subpoena compliance. We also negotiate agreements and litigate disputes between users, suppliers and providers of communications services, and represent clients in enforcement actions before the FCC, state commissions and attorneys general.
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Spotlights
Internship Opportunity with Internet, Communications & Data Protection Group in Washington, DC Sonnenschein's Internet, Communications & Data Protection (ICDP) Group announces an unpaid internship opportunity for currently enrolled graduate students (law, business, or communications students) in our Washington, DC office. We are looking for a 3-6 month commitment for a minimum of 20 hours per week. Duties include supporting the ICDP group and it's clients by identifying new developments in the field of information security, privacy and Internet liability. Day-to-day tasks include briefing lawyers on new developments, drafting blog entries and client alerts, and providing information about the Internet activities of prospective firm clients. Read more about Sonnenschein's Internet, Communications & Data Protection Group internship opportunity. Sonnenschein Hosts Webinar - It's All About the Data: Privacy and Security for Patient Data On May 12, 2009, Sonnenschein's Health Care and Internet, Communications & Data Protection Practices hosted a webinar titled, "It's All About the Data: Privacy and Security for Patient Data in 2009". This seminar: (1) summarized new privacy and security regulations that impact health care providers, (2) provided an easy-to-follow timeline of required next steps, and (3) offered practical and cost effective tips for ensuring compliance. Listen to the audio presentation and view the presentation (590k PDF) from this webinar. Introducing the Internet, Communications and Data Protection Blog The Internet, Communications and Data Protection Group at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has launched its new blog. This blog will be chock full of important new developments in Internet, Security, Privacy and Communications Law. Unlike our formal e-Alerts, which will continue from time-to-time, our blog posts will be shorter, more frequent, and hopefully, more amusing. Visit the Internet, Communications and Data Protection Blog.
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