U S Tightening Exports Of Cybersecurity And Surveillance Tools
The Bureau of Industry and Security published an interim rule to bring “controls on the export, re-export or transfer (in-country) of certain items that can be used for malicious cyber activities.” The department said authoritarian regimes could use such tools to abuse human rights. This means American companies will need to obtain a license if they want to export such components to certain nations. Particularly, countries possessing “weapons of mass destruction” or the ones deemed a national security threat....