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...Ballast for the theory comes from a National Bureau of Economic Research paper....
...The iPhone maker said on Friday that the Cyberspace Administration of China had ordered the applications’ removal from the Apple App Store in the country because of “national security concerns”....
...Or as David Frederick of the National Security Agency echoed: “You cannot overstate the critical mass of prepositioning and attack capabilities.”...
...David Ellison, who runs Skydance, has 30 days to reach a deal with the company controlled by Shari Redstone’s National Amusements (NAI), her family’s privately owned cinema group that holds 77 per cent of...
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...Is TikTok really a national security risk?...
...Ellison’s Skydance, which is backed by private equity investor RedBird Capital, KKR and Tencent, has been in talks with Redstone for several months to acquire a majority stake in National Amusements (NAI...
...The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed a package of national security bills that included legislation that would result in TikTok being banned in the country if Chinese parent company ByteDance...
...TikTok and the AI that can be channelled through it are national and homeland security issues that meet these standards....
...The move followed briefings from national security officials who warned that China could gain access to Americans’ personal data held on the app....
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...planned to develop Rosebank to produce oil from 2026-2027, sparking criticism from environmental campaigners and politicians including Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister and leader of the Scottish National...
...Few are the venture capital investors, in the UK and elsewhere, who would be prepared to outsource due diligence in this manner....
...The UK could instead look at “designation of social media apps” under the control of foreign adversaries as national security threats, or “tougher data exfiltration laws”, she suggested....
...A bill requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok or face having the app banned over national security concerns passed in the Senate on Tuesday and is expected to be signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday....
...The National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of the signals intelligence agency GCHQ, published fresh advice on Monday for “high-risk individuals” whose work or public status means they can access or influence...
...The National Basketball Association is the next major sports league looking to sign a new media contract....
...Both moves have been portrayed, in broad terms, as linked to national security. One looks more like crude electoral politics....
...“These are national security threats and it is good members in both chambers are taking them seriously....
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