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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In a final rule issued last week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has amended and reissued the Somalia Sanctions Regulations, which can be found in 31 C.F.R. Part 551. The final rule incorporates Executive Order 13536, (“Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia”) and Executive Order 13620 (“Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency W...

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC The regulatory landscape for U.S. sanctions and export controls is complex and ever shifting. Because we are constantly keeping an eye on this moving target... Kelley Drye & Warren LLP On April 8, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) announced a bipartisan agreement on a wide-ranging strategic approach towards China. Morrison & Foerster LLP On April 15, 2021, following discussions just days earlier of a po...

Data Brokers and National Security Sen. Ron Wyden speaks a town hall in 2017. (Joe Frasier, https://flickr.com/photos/146781514@N05/33115710686; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en) In the worlds of data protection and privacy, too often there is a decoupling of national security issues and what might be termed non-national security issues despite the clear interplay between the two realms. Over the past decade, U.S. adversaries have vacuumed up the personal data of m...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 19, 2021, we saw the publication of both an interim final rule from the Department of Commerce (Commerce) to address the security of the U.S. supply chain for information technology (the Rule) 1 and a new cyber-security executive order (the Order), 2 both issued under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). These issuances represent the final regulatory efforts by the outgoing Trump admin...

The outgoing US President Donald Trump on Tuesday amended an executive order to deal with the national emergency related to significant malicious cyber-enabled

Trump amends order to deal with malicious cyber-enabled activities ANI | Updated: Jan 20, 2021 10:09 IST Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): The outgoing US President Donald Trump on Tuesday amended an executive order to deal with the national emergency related to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities. The amended order closes a longstanding, critical, security loophole for United States Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products, one abused by tho...