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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | John Babcock |Laura Black |Christian Davis
On February 21, 2025, President Trump issued the America First Investment Policy Memorandum, which emphasizes the U.S. commitment to a strong, open investment environment while reshaping the U.S. government’s policy towards inbound and outbound investment.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | John Babcock |Laura Black |Christian Davis
Key Takeaways On January 8, 2025, the DOJ published a final rule prohibiting and restricting certain transactions that could allow persons from countries of concern, such as China, access to bulk sensitive personal data of U.S. citizens or to U.S. government-related data (regardless of volume).
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | John Babcock |Laura Black |Christian Davis
Key Takeaways On January 8, 2025, the DOJ published a final rule prohibiting and restricting certain transactions that could allow persons from countries of concern, such as China, access to bulk sensitive personal data of U.S. citizens or to U.S. government-related data (regardless of volume).
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2 months ago | 
mondaq.com | Jonathan Poling |Kevin Wolf |Thomas Krueger |John Babcock
On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-1), which lays out the framework for how the National Security Council (NSC) will be organized under his administration.1 The Trump NSC framework is different from Biden's, which was articulated in NSM-2, in some ways.2 In a change from Biden administration processes, NSPM-1 merges the Homeland Security Council (HSC) and the NSC on certain agreed-to topics, providing more discretion about who can...
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2 months ago | 
akingump.com | Jonathan Poling |Kevin Wolf |Thomas Krueger |John Babcock
On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-1), which lays out the framework for how the National Security Council (NSC) will be organized under his administration.1 The Trump NSC framework is different from Biden’s, which was articulated in NSM-2, in some ways.2 Key Takeaways: In a change from Biden administration processes, NSPM-1 merges the Homeland Security Council (HSC) and the NSC on certain agreed-to topics, providing more discretion...
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
adweek.com | John Babcock
There is no denying it—the influencer marketing industry is growing at breakneck speed. In 2025, for the first time, influencer marketing spending growth in the U.S. will outpace both digital and social network spending, signaling an incredible and transformative shift in how the industry prioritizes and integrates influencer marketing into broader media strategies.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | John Babcock |Laura Black |Christian Davis
[co-author: Eveline Liu]The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) continues to aggressively utilize and expand its authority to address national security risks related to foreign investment into the United States: CFIUS has increased its enforcement activity and recently disclosed that it had issued three times as many penalties in the prior 18 months as it had in the prior 30 years, including a penalty of $60 million for violations of a mitigation agreement.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
chicoer.com | John Babcock
I was born in Blackearth, Wisconsin many moons age on April 1 to birth parents who had moved there from a rural area of upstate New York west of Albany, the state capital. During the winter of 1929 they made a trip with my little brother and I to visit relatives near their former home. It was a bitter cold winter and they decided to leave me with my great grandparents. He was a Civil War veteran. I was shown in the 1930 census as a member of his family. We lived in the Corporal Tanner home.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | John Babcock |Laura Black |Christian Davis
Key Points The Department of the Treasury has issued proposed regulations to implement President Biden’s 2023 EO targeting U.S. investments in Chinese companies engaged in certain activities related to semiconductors, quantum computing or AI. Once the regulations become effective, U.S. persons will be prohibited from engaging in certain transactions involving China or Chinese persons in these sectors while others will require a notification to the U.S. government.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | John Babcock |Laura Black |Christian Davis
On April 24, 2024, President Biden signed into law H.R. 815, a national security and foreign aid package which includes the “Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024” (“PADFA”). The Act establishes new restrictions, as unfair or deceptive acts regulated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on transfers of certain personally identifiable sensitive data to foreign adversary countries and entities controlled by a foreign adversary. The law will take effect on June 23, 2024.
