In the wake of the tragic 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 people dead and 22 others seriously injured, a legal confrontation emerged that would reverberate across the realms of technology, civil liberties, and national security. At the center: the locked iPhone 5c of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers,…
In a high-stakes legal showdown, TikTok appeared before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday to challenge a nationwide ban set to take effect on Jan. 19, 2025. The app, which boasts 170 million American users, faces allegations that its parent company, ByteDance, poses a national security risk due to its…
TikTok has filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block the enforcement of a federal law that could compel the platform to shut down in the United States by Jan. 19, 2025. The petition challenges the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, signed into law in…
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is demanding a federal investigation into consulting giant McKinsey & Company due to its alleged connections with the Chinese government. House Select Committee Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI), along with Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Joni Ernst (R-IA), expressed concerns about McKinsey’s operations in China and its eligibility for Department…