The U.K. on Nov. 24 amended one entry under its cyber sanctions list. The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation updated the entry for Andrei Kozlov, an employee of sanctioned entity Media Land, to add his date of birth, place of birth and nationality. Kozlov is now listed as a Russian national.
Google subsidiary Starfish is seeking FCC approval to build and test parts of the Bulikula submarine cable system in U.S. territory while the agency reviews the cable landing license application. In a special temporary authority application Friday, Starfish said it needs approval by Dec. 16 so cable-laying activities in U.S. territory can start on schedule. The Bulikula system would connect Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and Hawaii to Fiji and French Polynesia. Google applied for FCC approval in November 2024 (see 2411180002).
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting antidumping and countervailing duties be imposed on van-type trailers and subassemblies from Canada, Mexico and China. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The investigation was requested by the American Trailer Manufacturers Coalition, which consists of Great Dane, Stoughton Trailers and Wabash National Corp.
Australia last week sanctioned Russian-based Media Land and ML.Cloud, along with key officials Aleksandr Volosovik and Kirill Zatolokin, for operating as cybercrime service providers. "These organisations have provided their ransomware infrastructure to malicious cyber actors and cybercriminals, allowing them to conduct cyber attacks in Australia and around the world," the country said. It added that the designations were coordinated with the U.S. and the U.K., which also sanctioned the two groups last week (see 2511190012).
Mandi Rae Lumley, a member of the Yakama Native American tribe, dropped her lawsuit against the imposition of tariffs against herself and her company as a violation of the 1855 Yakama Treaty. On Nov. 20, Lumley's counsel, Rugged Law, a criminal justice firm in Portland, Oregon, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Mandi Rae Lumley v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, D.Or. # 3:25-02003).
Age verification is “a wave that keeps coming," in part because there are many options for doing it, said Amy Lawrence, chief privacy officer at adtech company SuperAwesome, on a Squire Patton webinar about app store age verification.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control and the U.K.'s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation this week sanctioned Media Land, a Russia-based hosting service provider, for supporting ransomware operations and other cybercrimes. The two countries also sanctioned Media Land employees and associates Aleksandr Volosovik, Kirill Zatolokin and Yulia Pankova and a Media Land sister company, ML.Cloud.
The House Communications Subcommittee plans a markup session Tuesday on a set of 28 largely GOP-led broadband permitting bills, the Commerce Committee said Friday night. House Communications members traded partisan barbs during a September hearing on the measures, with Democrats saying that most of them were unlikely to be effective in speeding up connectivity buildout (see 2509180069). Tuesday's meeting will begin at 10:15 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn.
Privacy regulators in the U.S. and abroad are scrutinizing how connected vehicles collect and share data about their drivers, said Morrison Foerster attorneys on a webinar Wednesday.
A compromise package to reopen the federal government (HR-5371) that the House and Senate are expected to vote on soon (see 2511100022) would also enact FY 2026 funding for the Agriculture Department with more rural broadband money than Congress proposed earlier this year. HR-5371’s USDA funding section includes $108.5 million for rural broadband programs, 13% more than the $96 million that the House and Senate included in slightly different versions of a minibus funding bill they passed in June (HR-3944).