Company: IHETW
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001400891-25-000009
Chunk: 27

Company: iHeartMedia, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 27
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 States and most countries require companies to implement measures and controls to protect certain types of information and to notify users, regulators and/or other third parties if there is a security breach impacting the integrity or confidentiality of protected information. Any failure on our part to comply with these laws may subject us to significant liabilities. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") provides a private right of action and minimum statutory damages for certain types of data breaches, with possible damage awards of $100 to $750 per consumer per incident, or actual damages, whichever is greater. The EU General Data Protection Regulation ("EU GDPR") and UK General Data Protection Regulation ("UK GDPR") provide potential fines up to EUR €20 million or (EU GDPR) or £17.5 million (UK GDPR) or 4% of worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is greater, for inadequately notifying relevant stakeholders and regulators of a personal data breach. 

In the area of direct marketing, in the United States we are subject to laws, rules and regulations governing our marketing activities conducted by or through telephone, email, SMS/text messaging and the Internet, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”), the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”), the CAN-SPAM Act and similar state laws, rules and regulations. Collectively, these laws control how we use personal information to market products and services to consumers. Notably, the TCPA provides a private right of action, for which individual plaintiffs or classes of plaintiff may 

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bring suit seeking damages up to $500 per violation. TCPA settlements and verdicts can be significant, depending on the size of the class and the number of alleged violative marketing calls or text messages. 

Available Information

You can find more information about us at our Internet website located at www.iheartmedia.com. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, our Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports are available free of charge through our Internet website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish such material to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The contents of our websites are not deemed to be part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K or any of our other filings with the SEC.