Law, Courts & Regulations
Trump’s demand that Nvidia pay a cut of its China sales in exchange for export licenses is illegal. Companies and states can sue to stop it. The Trump administration is taxing chip exports without con...
In recent years, the national security risks posed by foreign adversary access to Americans’ personal information have come into stark relief. News headlines are replete with examples of how bulk data...
Late last month, Apple sued the Israeli technology firm NSO Group under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That's the federal law that criminalizes computer hacking and provides a civil cause of action...
On Monday, Nov. 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against NSO Group Technologies, an Israeli company. The suit, originally brought by WhatsApp and...
NSO Group filed a motion to dismiss WhatsApp’s lawsuit over the alleged hacking of 1,400 cellphones running the WhatsApp application. The motion to dismiss involved one curious claim: NSO claimed deri...
There’s a revolution happening inside platforms like YouTube and Instagram, and it is changing the way those companies govern speech on the internet. Small armies of platform employees, consultants, a...
Earlier today the Supreme Court unanimously rejected TikTok's constitutional challenge to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACAA) , which will block most ...
On Jan. 17, the Supreme Court issued a per curiam decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The act—which will make it un...
On Dec. 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled to deny three petitions aiming to challenge the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applicat...
On Dec. 10, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released “A Review of the Department of Justice’s Issuance of Compulsory Process to Obtain Records of Members of Congress, Congressional Staffers,...
Click here to listen to ChinaTalk in your favorite podcast app . Where is Congress on AI? How will a second Trump term impact US innovation? Does Congress have what it takes to step up and legislate i...
Choosing not to engage The Situation on its terms. The Situation on Thursday contemplated the John Bolton indictment. Thursday already feels like a long time ago. Since then, James Comey has filed his...
A look at the guilty pleas so far sheds light on who the defendants are, what their goals were, how evidence is being gathered, and how prosecutors and judges are coping with the largest federal crimi...
On Nov. 24, a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled to invalidate the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney...
The Intercept ’s “Drone Papers” leaker “ believes the public has a right to know how the U.S. government decides to assassinate people .” Maybe so—or maybe public safety and the need for secrecy trump...
Many Pentagon officials and U.S. lawmakers likely lay awake at night wondering what Chinese leaders think about the use of artificial intelligence in war. On today’s episode, Sam Bresnick, a Research ...
The action has shifted to Congress, the Mueller report is filed, and a blizzard of subpoena fights between the White House and various congressional committees is already underway. The president has s...
On May 14, attorneys representing President Trump and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform argued before Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Trump v. Com...
The wait is almost over. The Mueller report is set for release on Thursday morning. It’s already a number-one bestseller on Amazon. Congressional staffers are stockpiling booze and drafting take-out o...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled in McKeever v. Barr, a case concerning whether federal courts have the inherent authority to release grand jury information protected under Rul...