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Ropes & Gray LLP

DOJ Bulk Data Final Rule Update

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Today, the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Final Rule implementing former President Biden’s Executive Order 14117, “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by...more

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DOJ Rule Restricting Sensitive Data Transfers Takes Effect

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Today, April 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Final Rule restricting transfers of bulk sensitive personal data and U.S. government-related data becomes effective, implementing former President Biden’s Executive Order...more

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Supreme Court Upholds Law Restricting TikTok’s Operations in the U.S.

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On January 17, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision in TikTok Inc. v. Garland, affirming the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the Act), which restricts...more

Fisher Phillips

New Executive Order to Block Businesses From Transferring Data to China and Other Countries of Concern – 4 Steps to Comply

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President Biden just issued an Executive Order that will lead to new restrictions on transferring sensitive personal data to China and other “countries of concern” – and it may create massive new compliance obligations for...more

K2 Integrity

CFIUS: Questions for the Biden Administration

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) can be expected to maintain America’s traditional open investment posture consistent with the robust protection of U.S. national security interests....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The Trump Administration's Executive Order to Ban Transactions with Persons Developing or Controlling Eight Chinese Apps

On January 5, 2021, President Trump issued Executive Order 13971 (the “Executive Order”) that provides for prohibitions on U.S. persons engaging in transactions with persons that develop or control any of the following eight...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

You Have Been Weighed in the Balance and Found Wanting (Or at Least, Inadequate)

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Article 45 of the GDPR allows the transfer of personal data from the EU to a third country when the third country ensures an “adequate level of protection” (adequacy decision). In determining “adequacy,” the GDPR provides...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Further Tension Between National Security and Protecting Privacy: Latest EU Judgments

United Kingdom, French and Belgian national security laws (and such laws of other EU Member States) fell under the scrutiny of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which on October 6, 2020, ruled on whether such...more

Baker Donelson

CFIUS Update: Expanded Emphasis on U.S. Export Control Regulations

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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the Committee), an inter-agency government body tasked with reviewing certain types of foreign direct investment in the United States for national security...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 8.24.2020 | Top Story: TikTok Confirms Plans to Sue U.S. over Recent Executive Orders Targeting App

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More on TikTok’s plans to sue the U.S. over the White House’s recent executive orders seeking to block the app on American soil and force its owner, ByteDance, to sell its American assets. The company intends to argue that...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

UPDATE: National Security Meets Teenage Dance Battles: U.S. Increases Pressure on ByteDance Sale of TikTok

The Takeaway: Severe restrictions on ByteDance’s Sale of TikTok should be a warning to media and tech companies with foreign ownership, particularly Chinese investment, to know your risks and mitigate them before the...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

New Treasury Department Regulations Expand CFIUS Authority

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury recently published final regulations to further implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA“) and to better address national security concerns resulting...more

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Facing FIRRMA: CFIUS Review of the Biotechnology and Life Sciences Sector

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The Situation: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS," or the "Committee") recently published draft regulations implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act ("FIRRMA"), which...more

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The Fun App Trap

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We’ve all seen the funny faces appearing across the internet as friends and family use the FaceApp to see what they may look like in 30 to 50 years. The resulting images are wrinkled and gray, but the trade made—instead of...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Data Not Dating: Trump Administration Reversal of Merger Signals National Security Implications of Data

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Amidst the thicket of federal regulators that populate Washington is the obscure Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Founded on the eve of World War II, CFIUS is an inter-agency task force. Its...more

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