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The GENIUS Act: What Is It and What’s Next?

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On June 17, the U.S. Senate voted 68-30 to pass S.1582, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, known as the GENIUS Act (the Act). This represents a landmark effort by the U.S. Congress to...more

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Trump Signs EO on AI Cybersecurity and Senate Floats New Approach to State AI Moratorium - AI: The Washington Report

On June 6, President Trump issued an Executive Order on cybersecurity to manage AI software vulnerabilities and compromises in the federal government. The EO also directs various agencies to share their datasets for cyber...more

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Legislation introduced in Senate Foreign Relations Committee to support U.S. competitiveness against Russia and China for global...

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Earlier this week, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-Del.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Energy...more

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The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

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On 1 April 2025, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology issued a policy statement setting out its key proposals for the new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. The Bill is intended to respond to an...more

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Is Change Around the Corner? One Proposal to Forge Sweeping Changes to Defense Contracting

At the end of 2024, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) published a plan (“Restoring Freedom’s Forge: American Innovation Unleashed”) and introduced a bill (the Fostering Reform and Government Efficiency in Defense Act or FoRGED...more

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Latest Updates in Trade Controls for the Tech Sector

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Melissa Duffy and Trevor Coval contributed their thought leadership to the American Conference Institute’s 14th Annual Global Encryption, Cloud & Cyber Export Controls Conference, held in San Francisco on May 14-16. Melissa...more

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The BIOSECURE Act and Its Potential Implications

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Proposed federal legislation known as the BIOSECURE Act is being considered in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate....more

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After Corporate Transparency Act Takes Hit in Ruling, What's Next?

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The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), a significant legislative effort aimed at curbing financial crimes by increasing corporate accountability, has been declared unconstitutional by the U.S. District Court for the Northern...more

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Look Ahead to the Week of November 27: More Spending Fights Are Imminent

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Both the House and Senate will be back in session this week after passing a bipartisan “laddered” continuing resolution before the Thanksgiving holidays that would fund the government through January 19 and February 2, 2024....more

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What to Know About the New Artificial Intelligence Executive Order

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President Joe Biden on Oct. 30, 2023, signed an expansive, 111-page Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (EO) in response to the administration's growing concerns...more

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White House Unveils Landmark Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

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On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. The EO establishes sweeping directives and priorities for federal...more

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Growing Calls to Ban Chinese Owned TikTok App and Other Software Apps Considered to be National Security Threats

Chinese company ByteDance faces growing concerns from governments and regulators that its user data from its popular short video-sharing app TikTok could be handed over to the Chinese government. The concern is based on...more

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Section 5949 - Congress's Latest Prohibition on Chinese Technology in Federal Procurement, and What It Means for Government...

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Chinese semiconductors are ubiquitous within the United States and its private- and public-sector supply chains. To contend with the attendant national security and economic risks (whether real or perceived), Congress...more

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As US-China Rivalry Intensifies, Congress Pushes to Further Decouple – Outbound Screening and the NCCDA

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Longstanding concerns on Capitol Hill about certain “outbound” activities conducted by U.S. companies and investors, particularly in the technology sector, both in China as well as outside of China with a China nexus, have...more

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La Chambre des communes dépose le projet de loi C-26 pour encadrer la cybersécurité dans certains secteurs

Le 14 juin 2022, la Chambre des communes du Canada a déposé le projet de loi C-26, lequel prévoit l’imposition de diverses obligations en matière de cybersécurité aux organisations désignées exerçant des activités dans quatre...more

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House of Commons Introduces Bill C-26: Proposed Federal Cybersecurity Legislation

On June 14, 2022, the House of Commons of Canada introduced Bill C-26, which would impose a series of cybersecurity-related obligations on designated organizations in four key federally regulated sectors: telecommunications,...more

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U.S. National Security Issues in Cross-Border Food, Beverage & Agribusiness Deals

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On October 28, 2021, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced the Food Security is National Security Act of 2021 (the “Act”). Among other things, the Act would require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 23

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - NIST Produces Roadmap for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Version 1.1 - On April 25, the National Institute of Standards and Technology...more

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US Targets Telecommunications Transactions Involving the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain

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On May 15, 2019, President Trump issued an executive order (EO), "Executive Order on Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain," prohibiting certain transactions involving...more

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M&A Watch: Ant Financial and MoneyGram Terminate Merger Agreement Due to CFIUS Concerns

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MoneyGram International Inc. and Ant Financial Services Group recently announced the termination of their agreement providing for the acquisition of Texas-based money transfer company MoneyGram by China-based Ant Financial...more

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The Future of CFIUS: Perhaps Not So Happy a New Year

‘Tis the season to wonder, what will 2018 bring? We may speculate on things like a private company making a moon landing or a peace accord with North Korea. We may be certain of things like well-intentioned gym memberships...more

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