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Congressman, Industry, And NGOs Warn U.S. Cyber Proposals On Wassenaar Too Broad

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015

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Stakeholders have warned the United States its proposed export controls on digital intrusion and surveillance technology for the international Wassenaar Arrangement are much too broad.Legislators, industry officials, and open internet non-government organizations (NGO) warned the U.S. in July 20 comments for the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security proposed export controls. The Commerce Department issued a proposed rule on May 20 to govern the export of intrusion software. The category of software was added to the list of controlled…

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