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Commerce Focuses National Security Scrutiny on 'Connected Vehicle' Supply Chain

On March 1, 2024, the Department of Commerce (Commerce), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), through its Office of Information and Communication Technology and Services (ICTS), released an advanced notice of proposed...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Executive Order on Foreign Access to Sensitive Personal Data Will Increase U.S. Regulation of Cross-Border Data Transfers

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On February 28, 2024, the White House released a highly anticipated and far-reaching Executive Order (EO) that directs several new regulatory steps to limit the transfer of sensitive personal data outside of the United States...more

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A New National Spectrum Strategy for the United States | Insights

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Over the past few decades, as demand for wireless spectrum has grown, many presidential administrations have put out various plans for handling spectrum policy. On November 13, 2023, the Biden administration released its...more

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Understanding the Evolving U.S. Sanctions and Restrictions on Ethiopia and Eritrea

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Several U.S. sanctions and restrictions on Ethiopia and Eritrea remain in place due to the countries’ failure to fully implement the peace deal reached with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in November 2022. While...more

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Escalation of U.S. Crackdown on Chinese Technology and Telecoms: Emerging Issues

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In recent years, the U.S. has pursued a whole-of-government approach to target Chinese technology and service providers in furtherance of foreign policy and national security objectives....more

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Analysis: How Team Telecom Can Conduct Faster Reviews in No-risk Cases

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A common concern of telecommunications companies, their investors, and their counsel is that the Team Telecom process is unduly long—especially compared with the analogous process for the Committee on Foreign Investment in...more

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CFIUS Year in Review

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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

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Federal Report Criticizes Mobile App Ecosystem and Calls for New Regulation

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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

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Navigating U.S. Sanctions and Restrictions on Ethiopia and Eritrea

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U.S. sanctions and other restrictions on Ethiopia and Eritrea may persist despite a recent peace deal between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The deal purports to end hostilities in an armed...more

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Team Telecom Two-Year Anniversary

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This month marks two years since the formation of the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector (see our previous client alert...). Informally known as Team...more

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

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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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

US Broadband in 2021; Policies Promoting Infrastructure, Competition, National Security and Universal Access

During his presidential campaign, President Biden committed “to build back better in rural America” by “expand[ing] broadband, or wireless broadband via 5G, to every American.” Last month, President Biden renewed his focus on...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Promoting Competition in the American Economy Executive Order: Antitrust Is Back?

On July 9, 2021, President Biden executed an Executive Order (EO) on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. This EO impacts the Intellectual Property (IP) transactions and portfolios as discussed below....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

President Biden Signs Executive Order Encouraging Greater Regulation of Tech and Communications Companies

On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a far-reaching Executive Order seeking to fight market concentration and anticompetitive practices across the entire U.S. economy, stating that "[a] fair, open, and competitive...more

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Biden Signs Executive Order Reshaping Competition for Tech and the Internet

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Today, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order containing 72 directives for more than a dozen federal agencies to impose regulations, largely aimed at Big Tech and Telecom to reshape and promote competition within...more

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Three Ways President Biden’s Executive Order Affects the Telecom and Tech Sector

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President Biden’s recent “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (Order) promotes fair competition regulations across a diverse group of key U.S. industries, including telecom, technology, banking...more

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Biden Administration Signals Tech and Telecom Priorities in EO on Competition

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On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy (EO). The EO seeks to establish a “whole-of-government” effort to promote competition in the U.S. economy, featuring...more

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Expansion of Public Meeting Teleconferencing During Pandemic Set to Expire in California

In response to public agencies’ urgent need to adapt to the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-29-20 (amending in part Executive Order N-25-20) to...more

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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont Signs Legislation Extending Expansion of COVID-19 Telehealth Services

On May 10, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law “An Act Concerning Telehealth” (the “Act”). The Act extends, until June 30, 2023, many of the COVID-19 related telehealth expansions issued by Governor Lamont...more

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Connecticut Extends Expansion of Access to Telehealth Services

On March 14, 2021, Connecticut Governor Lamont issued Executive Order 10C (EO 10C), which extends provisions of Public Act 20-2 (PA 20-2), a law passed by the Connecticut legislature in July 2020 that “provided additional...more

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President Biden Orders Comprehensive Supply Chain Review

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Articulates Administration Policy And Reaffirms Need For “Strong, Resilient Supply Chains” For “Critical And Essential Goods And Materials” - On February 24, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed an Executive Order on...more

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“State” of Telehealth Series: New Hampshire

On January 13, 2021, New Hampshire lawmakers, Jess Edwards, Jason Osborne and John Hunt, introduced House Bill 602, which seeks to roll back certain provisions of the July 21, 2020 telehealth bill (“House Bill 1623”) signed...more

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‘Foreign Adversaries’ In Tech Supply Chain May Be Under the Microscope

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The Information and Communications Technology and Services (ICTS) Rule, if implemented by the Biden Administration, would significantly impact companies that have an international nexus in a number of different sectors,...more

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“State” of Telehealth Series: New York

New York Telehealth Reforms – 2021 and Beyond The Empire State continues its expansion of telehealth adoption as Governor Andrew Cuomo introduced a number of proposals as part of his 2021 State of the State agenda set to...more

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Commerce Releases Rule for Reviewing Technology Transactions, Identifies Six Countries as “Foreign Adversaries”

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On January 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Department) released an interim final rule to implement President Trump’s 2019 Executive Order (EO) on “Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services...more

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