By Aaron Nicodemus2024-10-22T14:37:00
The Department of Justice has proposed a new rule that would regulate the use of Americans’ personal information by foreign companies and foreign persons in six “countries of concern,” including China and Russia.
The notice of proposed rulemaking would prohibit and restrict the sale of private data to those nations, to try and blunt their efforts to use it for espionage, coercion, influence, blackmail and other cyber-enabled activities.
In addition to Russia and China (and Hong Kong and Macau), the other nations included in the rule were Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela.
2024-10-30T14:17:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The U.S. Treasury Department has issued a final rule–and created a new division to oversee it–that will attempt to limit outbound investments to China related to sensitive technologies with military applications.
2024-09-09T13:08:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Clearview AI was fined 30.5 million euro (U.S. $33.8 million) by the Dutch Data Protection Authority and ordered to stop collecting images of Dutch citizens in the latest enforcement action against the U.S. company.
2024-07-31T17:14:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Meta agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle allegations regarding the unauthorized capture and use of personal biometric data of state residents.
2025-10-15T19:43:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
Under the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration have been hellbent on eliminating synthetic food dyes from food and beverage products, forcing a jarring and costly overhaul with cascading impacts on the operations of the entire industry.
2025-10-08T20:08:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Private companies that are keen to trade their shares but do not wish to become listed have gained another way to trade their shares. The U.K. government completed its initial review and published rules for the system in June.
2025-10-03T21:24:00Z By Adrianne Appel
While the Trump administration may have shifted away from pursuing small, white-collar, financial crimes, its focus on health care fraud cases is as hot as ever.
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