Though the global flow of data and information is the basis for so many systems, having protections that ensure foreign adversaries and other bad actors can’t gain access to the data is crucial, said a panel of privacy lawyers and security experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday. Accordingly, Justice's new data transfer rule is playing a major role, panelists said.
The emergence of state privacy laws means that there are several standards or policies that companies and businesses must follow when defining and de-identifying sensitive information, said a panel of experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute event Thursday.
National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones Chair Shannon Fura, a founder of Chicago law firm Page Fura, said the language in President Donald Trump's recent executive orders creating new tariffs, which say that goods must pay tariffs before entering FTZs, "are handcuffing some of the benefits" that FTZs are designed to provide.
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Nearly 750 organizations and businesses gave input to the administration on trade barriers or subsidies that prevent them from reaching their sales potential.
These are good and bad times for privacy protection, Daniel Solove, a lawyer and professor at George Washington Law School, said Thursday. Though the creation of data-protection laws is moving faster than ever, we live in a "privacy paradox" where individuals often don't understand intentionally confusing privacy laws yet are tasked with policing their data, he said.
The congressionally mandated National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology is expected to include recommendations on export control policy in its upcoming report to Congress, a Commerce Department official said March 18.
The new year has brought “escalating state regulatory demands and stricter enforcement reshaping business practices,” Proskauer privacy lawyers blogged Monday.
The FCC’s outage reporting rules and its history of assessing large penalties for violations are leading to public safety answering points (PSAPs) being heavily burdened by notifications, said attorneys, trade groups and public safety associations. New rules that go into effect April 15 are likely to exacerbate the issue, they said during an FCBA virtual panel discussion Monday.
The FCC has created an internal, multi-bureau national security taskforce “to promote America’s national security and counter foreign adversaries, particularly the threats posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP),” said FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a news release Thursday. Called the Council for National Security, the group will include members from eight bureaus and FCC offices. Carr’s national security counsel, Adam Chan, will lead the group, the release said. It didn't specify which bureaus and offices will be involved, and the agency didn’t immediately respond to questions about the group's makeup or whether it will hold public meetings.