The Cyberlaw podcast: Where are all my Twitter followers?
In Episode 226 of The Cyberlaw Podcast, I’m deep in the Cologado wilderness, and the News Roundup team (Brian Egan with Matthew Heiman, Jim Lewis, and Dr. Megan Reiss) muddles through without him.
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Megan weighs in on Commerce’s announcement on Friday that it lifted the Denial Order against ZTE after ZTE paid an additional $1.4 billion in penalties and took other steps pursuant to the new settlement agreement reached in June. Megan forecasts continued pressure on ZTE from Capitol Hill, even if the additional penalties against ZTE are generally seen as significant. Jim thinks that the US government’s approach to ZTE is shortsighted and may end up harming national security interests down the road.
Megan and Jim also discuss the efforts of another Chinese company – the video surveillance camera company Hikvision – to fight back against US government concerns related to espionage. We ask ourselves: is there anything that a Chinese company can do to rebut US espionage and related concerns? And Jim weighs in on the “state of the state” of the 2015 “no commercial cyberespionage” handshake agreement between the US and China, which the State Department confirms is the rare international deal entered into under President Obama that has not yet been ripped up by President Trump.
