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6th Circuit Upholds 20-year Sentence of Chinese Spy, Convicted of Espionage Crimes, Attempting to Steal Trade Secrets

August 12, 2024 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On August 7, 2024, the 6th Circuit upheld a Chinese spy’s twenty-year prison sentence for attempting to steal aviation trade secrets from General Electric (GE). Yanjun Xu, a deputy director in China’s Ministry of State Security, was responsible for trying to steal aviation-related proprietary information. He spent years inviting Western aviation experts to China, attempting […]

Filed Under: China, Cyber Espionage, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, National Security Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, National Security

Article: White Paper on Clarifying Definitions in the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024

June 12, 2024 By Daniel Felz and Santi Villar

Peter Swire, Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird, has published a white paper at the Cross-Border Data Forum (“CBDF”), analyzing the definitions in the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (“PADFAA”), which was passed on April 24, 2024 and will take effect on June 23, 2024. The white paper discusses some ambiguities […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, Legislation, National Security Tagged With: Cross-border, Data Protection, International Data Transfers

Article: Executive Order to Limit Sales of Americans’ Sensitive Data to Adversarial Foreign Governments

February 29, 2024 By Santi Villar and Daniel Felz

Peter Swire, Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird, has co-authored a detailed article in Lawfare, “Limiting Data Broker Sales in the Name of U.S. National Security: Questions on Substance and Messaging,” analyzing the Biden Administration’s new Executive Order issued yesterday. Swire’s article summarizes key aspects and impacts of the Executive Order, which is intended to […]

Filed Under: International, National Security, Transfers Tagged With: Executive Order, International Data Transfers, National Security

Declassified Intelligence Community Letters Highlight Importance of Monitoring Outbound Data Flows

February 16, 2024 By Santi Villar and David Keating

On January 25, 2024, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) released documents that confirm U.S. intelligence agencies are purchasing location and other sensitive personal information from data brokers without the consent of the data subjects. The FTC has recently gone after data brokers who collect and sell the sensitive location data of consumers without their express consent, […]

Filed Under: Government Access to Data, National Security, Privacy Tagged With: Government Access to Data, Location Data, Sensitive Data

CISA Releases Advisory Concerning Chinese-Backed Threat Actor

October 9, 2023 By Kim Peretti

On September 27, 2023, The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Japanese National Police Agency (NPA), and the Japanese National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) released a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) concerning the recent activity of […]

Filed Under: Advisories, China, Cyber Risk, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Insurance Data Security, National Security, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cybersecurity, Data Protection

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