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The Foreign Agents Registration Act: 2024 Year in Review and Outlook for 2025

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Executive Summary - We entered 2025 with the world in turmoil, a new American administration in the White House, and various global actors—friends and foes alike—still actively vying for the attention of the American public. ...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Preparing for a TikTok Ban: What Employers Should Do to Ensure Access to Crucial Information Before It Disappears

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In recent years, TikTok has become a widely used platform for communication and content sharing, boasting nearly 2 billion users globally and 170 million active users in the U.S. alone. And while other social media platforms...more

King & Spalding

The Trifecta: What to Expect from a Second Trump Administration and a Republican Congress

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Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

The Trump Administration's Executive Order to Ban Transactions with Persons Developing or Controlling Eight Chinese Apps

On January 5, 2021, President Trump issued Executive Order 13971 (the “Executive Order”) that provides for prohibitions on U.S. persons engaging in transactions with persons that develop or control any of the following eight...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2020

In this month's edition, we examine the Swiss data protection authority's comments on the validity of its data-sharing framework with the U.S., as well as the European Data Protection Board's guidance on joint controllers and...more

Weintraub Tobin

The Courts Step In To Protect TikTok From The Trump Administration

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In a dramatic Sunday morning hearing (conducted remotely via telephone), lawyers for TikTok and the Trump Administration battled over whether the government’s order banning TikTok from the Apple and Google app stores would...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

As the App World Turns: Halt on Implementation of Commerce Prohibitions Regarding TikTok and WeChat

This past weekend saw a halt to the anticipated September 20 implementation of broad prohibitions published on September 18 by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) regarding TikTok and WeChat mobile applications. No...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

U.S. Department of Commerce Publishes Transactions with ByteDance and Tencent That Are Prohibited Due to National Security...

On September 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued two orders identifying the specific transactions related to the WeChat and TikTok mobile applications ("Orders") that are prohibited pursuant to Executive Orders...more

Alston & Bird

Uncertainty Surrounds Forthcoming Commerce Department Action on TikTok & WeChat “Bans”

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As the countdown continues to September 20, our International Trade & Regulatory Group examines the ambiguities underlying the unprecedented Executive Orders purporting to ban the use of TikTok and WeChat, questions that may...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.14.2020 | Top Story: Oracle Bests Microsoft In Pursuit of TikTok

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If not immune to surprise at this point in 2020, that might be the appropriate feeling at the apparent emergence of late-stage suitor Oracle as the winner of the TikTok sweepstakes. Though terms between ByteDance and Oracle...more

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President Trump Issues Executive Orders Prohibiting Transactions with the Makers of TikTok and WeChat

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President Donald Trump signed two executive orders (the EOs) on August 6, 2020, an Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok (TikTok EO) and an Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat (WeChat...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.10.2020 | Top Story: Twitter Enters Fray in Pursuit of TikTok

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With “Twit-tok” trending this weekend, you should be unsurprised to learn that Twitter has joined the group of suitors for TikTok, revealing that it’s held preliminary talks with the video-sharing app about a possible combo. ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

National Security Meets Teenage Dance Battles: Trump Issues Executive Orders Impacting TikTok and WeChat Business in the U.S.

On August 6, 2020, Trump issued two separate executive orders that will severely restrict TikTok and WeChat’s business in the United States. For weeks, the media has reported on Trump’s desire to “ban” TikTok with speculation...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 8.6.2020 | Top Story: Facebook Launches Instagram Reels to Compete with TikTok

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Never one to let a competitor’s misfortune pass by without looking for an opportunity, Facebook’s Instagram is hoping to capitalize on TikTok’s questionable U.S. status by launching Reels, a new feature that allows users to...more

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Countries and Companies Cool on TikTok, As Microsoft Proposes US Solution

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In early July, the Indian government banned many Chinese mobile applications, including TikTok, claiming they pose a “threat to sovereignty and integrity.” India’s Ministry of Information Technology acted “in defense of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.27.2020 | Top Story: Apple Stock Has Surged Over 2019, Consumers Divided on Future

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Apple stock has surged over the past year, but consumers are divided over the stock price’s future. Apple’s software services and hardware products create an identity crisis that impacts the company’s future valuations....more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.7.2020 | Top Story: Facebook Ban of “Deepfakes”

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Facebook wages a war on misinformation. On Monday, Facebook announced it will start removing videos altered by artificial intelligence that are likely to mislead people into thinking that a subject of the video made...more

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Can’t Block This!—Best Practices for Your Company’s Social Media Policy

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Federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled that President Trump could not block certain Twitter users from viewing his tweets, and that doing so was in violation of the U.S. Constitution. ...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Big Brother is Watching You: Feds Now Vetting Foreign Workers Via Social Media

Employers may need to start “following” the information their foreign national workers share on Twitter or Facebook, as the Department of Homeland Security is turning social media into the federal government’s latest...more

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Searches of Devices at the U.S. Border

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Although longstanding policy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorizes searches of electronic devices in the possession of travelers arriving in the United States, recent reports of such searches...more

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