national security
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Trump Extends TikTok’s Sell-By Date to 90 Days, Cites ‘Credible Evidence’ of Security Risk
U.S. President Donald Trump has given TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, 90 days to find a buyer for the app’s U.S. operations, stating in an executive order on Friday that there’s “credible evidence” that the Chinese tech giant “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States.” The White House has…
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Telstra Will Keep Its Hong Kong Data Centre Despite New National Security Laws
Telstra has confirmed it will continue to operate a data centre in Hong Kong despite concerns over new national security laws introduced by the Chinese government. The Australian telco has a number of data centres placed around the world, including in Singapore and Hong Kong in the Asia-Pacific region. It’s the latter data centre that…
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What Hong Kong’s New National Security Laws Could Mean For Telstra
Sweeping new national security laws have passed in Hong Kong, raising concerns the region is no longer independent of the Chinese government. Given a number of Australian companies, like Telstra, have operations set up in the busy, financial zone, it’s set to make things complicated. The Hong Kong national security law came into effect on…
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‘Anonymised’ Location Data Leak Allows Reporters To Quickly Track Trump’s Secret Service Detail
New York Times reporters working on an investigation into the sprawling location data business“in which the paper obtained a three-year-old file containing 50 billion location pings for over 12 million Americans“were able to track the movements of a member of Donald Trump’s Secret Service security detail. And thus, the Times reporters were able to track…