Cybersecurity, Executive Orders, Telecommunications

Taking Stock of the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Freeze

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/27/2025

On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential memorandum entitled Regulatory Freeze Pending Review (Freeze Order). This action is unsurprising, as previous Presidents have consistently issued similar memoranda at...more

Pause on Enforcement of TikTok Ban

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/22/2025

This EO instructs the Attorney General to delay enforcement of the TikTok ban for 75 days. The Attorney General will issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no...more

CFIUS Year in Review

Foley Hoag LLP on 2/9/2023

CFIUS reviewed a record number of transactions in 2021 according to its most recent annual report – and shows no signs of slowing down. High technology (including quantum computing), life sciences, and green energy...more

Federal Report Criticizes Mobile App Ecosystem and Calls for New Regulation

Wiley Rein LLP on 2/3/2023

On February 1, 2023, the Department of Commerce released a report, Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem, which follows a lengthy inquiry kicked off by President Biden’s 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the...more

President’s Telecom Advisors Promote Zero Trust Architecture in Key Report

Wiley Rein LLP on 2/28/2022

What: On February 23, 2022, the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) approved a final draft of its forthcoming report to the President on Zero Trust and Trusted Identity Management. ...more

FCC Seeks Unprecedented License Revocations from Chinese Telecoms

Perkins Coie on 5/7/2020

International trade and cyber security issues, compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, have increased existing tensions and distrust between the United States and China. At the same time, the Federal Communications Commission...more

US Commerce Department Imposes Broad Export Control Restrictions on Huawei

Latham & Watkins LLP on 5/24/2019

BIS designates Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and certain of its affiliates to the Entity List, restricting their ability to receive US products, software, and technology. On May 16, 2019, the US Commerce Department’s...more

US Targets Telecommunications Transactions Involving the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain

White & Case LLP on 5/21/2019

On May 15, 2019, President Trump issued an executive order (EO), "Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain," prohibiting certain transactions involving...more