Category: senator

Senator asks for criminal investigation into Amazon’s alleged data abuse

Post author By Randall
Post date April 28, 2020
Categories In Amazon, antitrust, data, gear, investigation, josh hawley, News, online shopping, sellers, senator, Tech

[ad_1] Following the Wall Street Journal’s report alleging that Amazon uses sellers’ data to make competing products, Senator Josh Hawley is asking for a criminal antitrust investigation into the claims. Hawley formally requested the investigation in a letter submitted to Attorney General William Barr today. According to the Wall Street Journal’s sources, Amazon employees (including […]

Senate bill would block US companies from storing data in China

Post author By Randall
Post date November 18, 2019
Categories In act, Apple, bill, business, bytedance, China, data, Data Privacy, encryption, encryption keys, gear, Internet, josh hawley, legislation, Mobile, national security, national security and personal data protection act, Politics, Security, senator, Tech, Tiktok, tomorrow, user data

[ad_1] The changes could impact companies like Apple and TikTok. Per Chinese law, Apple began storing Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a Chinese data center last year. Apple says it still controls encryption keys, but Hawley sees this as a national security threat. And like other senators, Hawley fears TikTok’s owner ByteDance could be pressured […]

Senators urge FAA to complete remote drone identification rules

Post author By Randall
Post date April 29, 2019
Categories In drone, Drones, edward markey, elaine chao, faa, Federal Aviation Administration, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, guidelines, identification, john thune, Law Enforcement, Politics, regulations, remote identification, Robots, Safety, Security, senator, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] The Senators want law enforcement to be able to quickly identify drones and respond to illegal or unauthorized activity. As the two note in a letter to US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, the FAA Extension, Safety, and Security Act of 2016 directed the FAA to issue regulations for the remote identification of drones […]