TCPA
October 12, 2026
The TCPA and the FCC's rules give tax-exempt nonprofits several carve-outs: their calls are not telephone solicitations, they may place up to three prerecorded calls to a residential line in 30 days without consent, and their telemarketing to cell phones needs ordinary rather than written consent. Autodialed and prerecorded calls to wireless numbers still need consent.
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Data Security Rules
October 5, 2026
Customer proprietary network information is the record of whom a phone customer calls, when, for how long and on what plan. Section 222 of the Communications Act limits how carriers use it, and the FCC's rules in subpart U of part 64 add a two-tier customer approval system, password and ID checks before disclosure, and an officer-signed compliance certificate filed every March 1.
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Breach Notification
October 5, 2026
In December 2023 the FCC rewrote its carrier breach rule to reach personally identifiable information and inadvertent exposures, add itself as a recipient, and swap a mandatory waiting period for a 30-day limit. Those amendments still await an effective date, and on July 31, 2026 the Sixth Circuit vacated the panel decision upholding the order.
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Data Brokers
October 5, 2026
In April 2024 the FCC fined the four national wireless carriers a combined $196,486,875 for selling access to customer location data through aggregators without adequate safeguards. All four paid and sued. Two circuits upheld the fines, one vacated AT&T's, and in June 2026 the Supreme Court held the FCC's forfeiture process does not violate the Seventh Amendment.
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TCPA
September 1, 2026
The FCC's 2023 order would have required consumers to consent to telemarketing robocalls one seller at a time, and limited each call's subject matter to the site where consent was given. The Eleventh Circuit vacated both restrictions on January 24, 2025, before the rule took effect, and the Commission removed the text from the CFR in August 2025.
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TCPA
September 1, 2026
A February 2024 FCC order codified the right to revoke TCPA consent by any reasonable means, fixed seven per se opt-out words for reply texts, capped the processing window at ten business days, and permitted one confirmation message. The cross-message-type portion of that rule has been waived twice and is now scheduled to take effect January 31, 2027.
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TCPA
August 12, 2026
The TCPA converts a single unwanted marketing text into statutory damages with no proof of harm, which is why it produces class action volume out of proportion to its age. This guide covers which calls need which grade of consent, what survived the Supreme Court's narrowing of the autodialer definition, how consent is revoked, and where the exemptions sit.
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