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US Announces Bans Against TikTok, WeChat Downloads, Updates

Top News|21 Sep 2020|Ref: 2009180051|by Karl Herchenroeder

Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat will be banned from U.S. app stores starting Sunday, the Commerce Department announced Friday, citing national security concerns (see 2008240047). “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps…Subscribe to Read >>

NTIA Says FCC Can Regulate Social Media Using Section 230

Top News|21 Sep 2020|Ref: 2009180054|by Karl Herchenroeder

The FCC has power to regulate social media, and the First Amendment supports the Trump administration’s petition for rulemaking, NTIA replied Friday (see 2009020064). The commission can require disclosure of information services under the Communications Act, and courts have ruled…Subscribe to Read >>

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CES 2021 Goes All-Virtual; ‘Just Not Possible to Safely Convene’ Physical Show

Bulletin|28 Jul 2020|Ref: 2007270072|by Paul Gluckman

CTA will move CES 2021 to an all-virtual event on Jan. 6-9 from a physical show at the Las Vegas Convention Center, said the association Tuesday.Read More >>

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The Hill virtual event with lawmakers and small business owners on digital infrastructure, 1 p.m. EDT — see here

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The Media Institute hosts political analyst Charlie Cook on the November elections, 1 p.m. EDT, for now, will be virtual — see here

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ITU summit on artificial intelligence, Geneva, rescheduled from May 4-8 — see here

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NTIA symposium on national spectrum policy and management, virtual, 8:30 a.m. EDT — see here

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UPDATED: FTC workshop on data portability, 9 a.m., now virtual — see here

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FCC’s reauthorized Intergovernmental Advisory Committee meets at 10 a.m. EDT, virtual, closed to public — see here

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FCC Technological Advisory Council meets virtually, 10 a.m. EDT — see here

Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., elevates panel staffer Phil Brest to acting staff director and chief counsel for the committee, replacing Heather Sawyer ... Accenture Federal Services promotes Christopher Copeland to chief technology officer and Kyle Michl to chief innovation officer, new post; Accenture also starts Accenture Cloud First with $3 billion investment over three years and moves Karthik Narain to lead it, and he joins Global Management Committee ... Microsatellite developer Astranis adds ex-NASA Administrator Dan Goldin as senior adviser to the company and chair, new Technical Advisory Board.

With SAIC's Jim Scanlon, executive vice president-general manager, Defense Systems Group, retiring, a reorganization is effective Oct. 31: Defense and Civilian led by Sector President Bob Genter, and National Security and Space is under Sector President Michael LaRouche ... With A10 Networks' Tom Constantino leaving, Vice President-Corporate Controller Brian Becker becomes interim chief financial officer ... Fastly hires Doniel Sutton, ex-PayPal, as chief people officer.

Center for a New American Security starts U.S. National Technology Strategy project, including Paul Scharre, project lead and director, CNAS Technology and National Security Program; among others from the Technology and National Security Program working on the new project, a CNAS spokesperson tells us, are: Senior Fellow Martijn Rasser, Fellow Kara Frederick and research assistants Megan Lamberth and Ainikki Riikonen.

Cybersecurity and tech investor Paladin Capital adds Ciaran Martin from U.K. National Cyber Security Centre as managing director ... U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper puts forward Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Michael Groen for lieutenant general with assignment as director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center; Groen is deputy chief of computer network operations, NSA ... Future of Privacy Forum adds to board Agnes Bundy Scanlan, Cambridge Group, and Elaine Laughlin, WSBE-TV Providence ... Udemy appoints Heather Hiles, founding CEO of Calbright College, to its board.

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