LTD Broadband asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the FCC’s rejection of its long-form application for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund support, as expected (see 2311160039). LTD challenged the FCC’s Dec. 4 order denying LTD’s application for review of the Wireline Bureau’s decision to reject the company’s application. “LTD asks that the Court hold the Order unlawful and set it aside,” said the company’s petition, which was posted by the court Wednesday. The FCC didn't immediately comment.
LTD Broadband asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review the FCC’s rejection of its long-form application for Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) support, as expected.
Mr. Cooper told customers in November that it disabled its payment portal and other “critical IT systems” due to a “system/technical outage,” but its systems were actually “infiltrated by a cyberattack,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00247) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.
IRobot announces departure of CEO-Chairman Colin Angle, with Chief Legal Officer Glen Weinstein becoming interim CEO and board member Andrew Miller becoming chairman (see 2401290044); Amazon and iRobot announced Monday their agreement to terminate their pending merger, citing "no path to regulatory approval in the European Union" … FCC Enforcement Bureau announces Alice Suh Jou, ex-DOJ, as assistant bureau chief and Jolina Cuaresma, former Common Sense Media, as senior policy counsel, with both to participate on Enforcement Bureau-led Privacy and Data Protection Task Force … Future of Privacy Forum appoints Anne Flanagan, ex-World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as vice president-AI … Incompas hires Keith Matthews, Mortgage Bankers Association, as digital media manager … Ericsson promotes Chafic Nassif to senior vice president-head, Northeast Asia market area … Mitel hires Black Box’s Jonathan Buckle, also former Carousel Industries and Avaya, to lead sales strategy and execution-the Americas ... Cadent, converged TV advertising platform, adds Greg Coleman, entrepreneur in residence at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, also former BuzzFeed president, to its board ... Sonos adds Rocket Companies Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Mildenhall to its board ... SES AI, developer and producer of lithium-metal batteries for electric vehicles, adds former Intel CEO Brian Krzanich to its board, expanding it to seven members.
The FCC Enforcement Bureau should change tactics to avoid the risk of targets making an end run around its processes by taking advantage of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions to drag the agency into litigation, said former FCC General Counsel Tom Johnson in a white paper sponsored by CTIA and published Monday by Wiley, where he's a partner.
FCC commissioners announce staff changes: Sanford Williams moves from special adviser to deputy chief of staff in Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel’s office; Arpan Sura, from Wireless Bureau, becomes legal adviser to Commissioner Brendan Carr; Milla Anderson, from office of Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., becomes policy adviser to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks; and acting staffers in Commissioner Anna Gomez’s office taking permanent spots are Deena Shetler as chief of staff-legal adviser for media and international, Edyael Casaperalt as legal adviser for Wireless, Public Safety and Consumer Protection, Hayley Steffen as legal adviser for Wireline and Space, Harsha Mudaliar as policy adviser for media and tech and Anna Holland, as executive assistant … Also, Rosenworcel announces retirements of Andrea Kearney from Office of General Counsel; Sheryl Segal, associate secretary-information; and Mary Romano, Enforcement Bureau … K&L Gates adds Joseph Trahern, ex-Comast, of counsel-public policy and law … Hallmark Media promotes John Matts to chief operating officer … Lantronix, IoT market provider, adds Christa Steele, ex-Balco, to its board ... Crown Castle adds Bradley Singer, ex-ValueAct and former Discovery, to its board.
Qualcomm promotes Chief Financial Officer Akash Palkhiwala to expanded role of CFO and chief operating officer ... Former FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Jessica Rich, ex-Kelley Drye, joins Consumer Product Safety Commission as general counsel, succeeding Austin Schlick, who is promoted to executive director … Bureau of Industry and Security hires Microsoft’s Elizabeth Cannon as first executive director-Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services … Sinclair moves Diana Wilkin to vice president-general manager, West Palm Beach, Florida, market ... Fox promotes Jeff Collins to president-advertising sales, marketing and brand partnerships, succeeding Marianne Gambelli, retiring … LG Ad Solutions, connected TV and cross-screen advertising platform, names GumGum’s Angela Barnett head-corporate communications ... WWE parent company TKO Group Holdings adds Uptake Technologies founder Brad Keywell and actor and part WWE owner Dwayne Johnson to its board, expanding it to 13 members ... DoubleVerify, software platform for digital media measurement, hires Onfido’s Alex Valle, also former Criteo and ex-Google, as new chief product officer, succeeding Jack Smith, moving into newly created role of chief innovation officer ... Infoblox, cloud networking and security services company, taps Lyft’s Amy Farrow as senior vice president-chief information officer.
Jane Hart aims to hold Mr. Cooper Group mortgage company and parent Nationstar Mortgage accountable for the harms it caused, and will continue to cause, to nearly 15 million individuals affected by a “massive and preventable” Oct. 31 data breach, said the Tennessee resident’s class action Friday (docket 3:24-cv-00093) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.
Medical transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates waited nearly six months to notify “impacted individuals” of a data breach that occurred March 27-May 2, said a negligence class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-00025) in U.S. District Court for Nevada in Las Vegas. Plaintiff Huda Abdaljalil, an Ohio resident, is a patient at a healthcare provider for which PJ&A provides transcription services, it said. In “requesting and maintaining” Abdaljalil’s personally identifiable (PII) and personal health (PHI) information, the defendant didn’t take care of her information, “leading to its exposure as direct result” of its “inadequate data security measures,” the complaint said. The notification Abdaljalil received from PJ&A “put the onus” on her to protect her PII and PHI by urging her to “remain vigilant” and recommending that she “regularly review her financial accounts, report any suspicious or unrecognized activity immediately and monitor her accounts for the next 12 to 24 months,” it said. Since learning of the breach, Abdaljalil has received “multiple dark web monitoring alerts” from her credit monitoring agencies, informing her that her PII and PHI “is on the dark web,” it said. Abdaljalil has had to spend time mitigating risk of future identity theft and fraud, including spending time researching the breach, changing her passwords and freezing her credit with credit bureaus, it said. She has experienced “significant frustration, anxiety, worry, stress, and fear” knowing that hackers accessed her PII and PHI and will likely use it in the future for identity theft, fraud “and other nefarious purposes,” it said. In addition to negligence, Abdaljalil claims unjust enrichment. She seeks compensatory and punitive damages, an order of restitution, injunctive relief, pre- and post-judgment interest and legal costs. PJ&A didn’t comment Friday.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr announces Arpan Sura, from the Wireless Bureau, as his legal adviser … 5G Americas elects Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile US president-technology, as board chairman … Brent Skorup announces he has left George Mason University's Mercatus Center to become a research fellow at the Cato Institute's Levy Center for Constitutional Studies … Pierson Ferdinand, tech-focused law firm, launches, with more than 130 partners representing 80-plus practices areas, including partners, all from FisherBroyles: Rachel Huffstetler and Keats Quinalty, both intellectual property; Adam Ettinger, chief technology officer; Vincent Bushnell, cyber risk, privacy and data Security; Je d Davis, Charles Geitner and Dan McGuire, cybersecurity and privacy; Maryam Meseha, cybersecurity and data protection; and Tony Onorato, cybersecurity, cyber risk and data breach ... Vislink appoints Christopher DeSalvo, ex-Paychex, as chief financial officer-vice president, operations ... Fox News Media promotes Scott Wilder to executive vice president-production and operations ... NetApp names Commvault’s Riccardo Di Blasio senior vice president-North America sales ... Intel hires Justin Hotard from Hewlett Packard Enterprise as executive vice president-general manager, Data Center and AI Group, and adds him to its executive leadership team, effective Feb. 1.