US and Australia enter CLOUD Act agreement for cross-border access to electronic evidence https://www.zdnet.com/article/australia-and-the-us-enter-into-cloud-act-agreement-for-cross-border-access-to-electronic-evidence/
U.S. to add more Chinese firms to investment, export blacklists – FT https://www.reuters.com/business/us-blacklist-8-more-chinese-companies-including-dji-over-uyghur-surveillance-ft-2021-12-15/
Congress, Far From ‘a Series of Tubes,’ Is Still Nowhere Near Reining In Tech https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/business/congress-tech-regulation.html
Ukraine arrests 51 for selling data of 300 million people in US, EU https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukraine-arrests-51-for-selling-data-of-300-million-people-in-us-eu/
Biden will sign an executive order to move government services online https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/biden-executiv-order-government-modernize
This Is Not the Privacy Bill You’re Looking For https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/not-privacy-bill-youre-looking
New social media transparency bill would force Facebook to open up to researchers https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/22827957/senators-bipartisan-pata-act-social-media-transparency-section-230
Two Democratic Senators urge federal investigations into Facebook for allegedly misleading claims https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/sens-cantwell-warren-urge-federal-investigations-into-facebook.html
U.S. State Department officials were targeted with NSO Group https://democratic-europe.eu/2021/12/06/u-s-state-department-officials-were-targeted-with-nso-group/
Keeping the Wrong Secrets https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2021-12-07/hacking-cybersecurity-keeping-wrong-secrets
Buried In Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Is A Mandatory Backdoor Kill Switch For Your Car https://hothardware.com/news/bidens-infrastructure-bill-mandatory-backdoor-car-kill-switch
80 House Republicans Help Fund Federal Vaccine Database https://www.newsmax.com/us/republicans-security-state-covid-19-pandemic/2021/12/01/id/1046996/
Biden administration makes first move on data privacy https://www.axios.com/biden-administration-data-privacy-commerce-department-65c99433-f7ac-49a8-88ce-b377e7e72382.html
Pentagon asks Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for bids on new cloud contracts https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/19/pentagon-asks-amazon-google-microsoft-oracle-for-cloud-bids.html
The U.S. Treasury Is Buying Private App Data to Target and Investigate People https://theintercept.com/2021/11/04/treasury-surveillance-location-data-babel-street/