CyberScoop reports that House Republicans have introduced a draft national digital privacy bill aimed at establishing business and consumer data protections against exploitation for advertising and other purposes.
The investigation was prompted by evidence from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and Ofcom's own assessment, which indicated the presence and dissemination of CSAM on Telegram.
Kaiser implored lawmakers to support federal efforts to pursue ransomware criminals, suggesting that terrorism designations be evaluated for actors who repeatedly target hospitals.
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.
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