Government Regulations

Legislation that would provide a 10-day extension for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been approved by the House, representing a setback for President Donald Trump and House GOP leaders, who had sought an 18-month renewal, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Industry leaders are seizing upon the Trump administration's Executive Order 14390 to argue that the federal government's aggressive posture toward cyber-enabled fraud prosecutions must be matched by an equally robust investment in digital identity infrastructure, which they contend remains the primary, underutilized lever for disrupting the economics of large-scale impersonation, reports Biometric Update.

Section 702 allows agencies like the NSA and CIA to monitor foreign communications, but this process can sweep up data from U.S. citizens who communicate with targets abroad.

Cybersecurity Dive reports that Netgear has been excluded from the U.S. government's sweeping ban on foreign-made routers.

The Trump administration was disclosed by U.S. National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross to be issuing further cybersecurity-focused executive orders following last month's release of the country's National Cyber Strategy, which was accompanied by an EO aimed at curtailing cybercrime and other fraudulent activities, reports Nextgov/FCW.

Nonprofit organization ioXt Alliance has been named by the Federal Communications Commission as the lead administrator for its Cyber Trust Mark Program, reports Cybersecurity Dive.

A recent Politico European Pulsepoll revealed that 84% of surveyed Europeans do not trust American tech firms with their data, while 93% feel the same about Chinese companies.

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is probing eight tech giants, including Meta, Amazon AI Services, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, X.AI, Grindr, and Roblox, over alleged failures to clearly report the exchange of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) data, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.