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Washington (AFP) - The US House of Representatives voted Friday to reauthorize an electronic urveillance program targeting foreigners, a practice officials say is critical to national security but criticized by opponents over concerns for American citizens' privacy. The Republican-controlled House voted to reauthorize a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, widely known as FISA, by a bipartisan vote of 273-147. A part of the program known as Section 702 allows US intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance of foreigners outside the United States. While...
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Washington (AFP) - US lawmakers moved Wednesday to pressure TikTok to sever ties with its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban, in a push to keep social media apps out of foreign adversaries' control. A bipartisan group of 20 lawmakers introduced a bill barring platforms controlled by ByteDance from US app stores or web hosting services unless they are no longer linked to China. The legislation would also allow the president to extend such a ban to social media platforms that pose a similar national security risk. "I would submit this bill provides the only path for the app to conti...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order Wednesday aimed at limiting the flow of sensitive US personal data abroad amid concerns of misuse by countries including China. Biden will direct the Justice Department to issue rules protecting Americans' information such as genetic, biometric and geolocation data from "access and exploitation by countries of concern," said the White House. These countries could include China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. "The sale of Americans' data raises significant privacy, counterintelligence, blackmail risks and other national se...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order Wednesday aimed at limiting the flow of sensitive US personal data abroad -- amid concerns they could be misused by countries including China. Biden will direct the Justice Department to issue rules protecting Americans' sensitive personal information -- such as genomic, biometric and geolocation data -- from "access and exploitation by countries of concern," said a White House fact sheet. These countries could include China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. "The sale of Americans' data raises significan...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden's debut on TikTok has caused a stir -- not least because the Chinese-owned social media platform is still officially considered a security risk by Washington. The video posted during the Super Bowl on Sunday was part of an effort by the 81-year-old's reelection campaign to reach younger voters, and included a reference to the quirky meme of a laser-eyed Biden alter-ego. But Republicans have criticized Democrat Biden for using an app that is banned on US federal government devices over fears it harvests data for Beijing. Even the White House admitted it...
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Washington (AFP) - US authorities detained a person near the White House on Monday who crashed a vehicle into an exterior gate of the presidential mansion complex, the Secret Service said. President Joe Biden was out of town at the time of the incident, and security officials did not say whether it was a traffic accident or intended as an attack. "Shortly before 6:00 pm (2300 GMT), a vehicle collided with an exterior gate on the White House complex. The driver has been taken into custody & we are investigating the cause & manner of the collision," US Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi ...
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Washington (AFP) - A 46-year-old man is facing drunk driving charges after his car crashed into a US Secret Service vehicle attached to President Joe Biden's motorcade, police said Monday. The accident occurred Sunday evening about 130 feet (40 meters) from Biden as he left his presidential campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. Police said that it was an "accidental collision" and the driver, a Wilmington man who was not identified, has been charged with driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and inattentive driving. Security personnel rushed the president into a waiting veh...
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Wilmington (United States) (AFP) - A car crashed into a Secret Service vehicle attached to Joe Biden's motorcade on Sunday, with the security scare startling the US president as he left his campaign headquarters in Delaware. After a loud bang caused by a sedan slamming into an SUV positioned in a nearby intersection about 130 feet (40 meters) from Biden, security personnel rushed the president into a waiting vehicle and he was whisked away from the building in downtown Wilmington. "Both the president and first lady are fine," a White House official told an AFP reporter who witnessed the incide...
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London (AFP) - Lawyers for Prince Harry on Tuesday began a legal challenge over his security arrangements in the UK, after he quit frontline royal duties and moved to North America. The case about his loss of UK taxpayer-funded protection is the latest in a string of court proceedings initiated by Harry, whose father is King Charles III. Harry is taking legal action against the UK interior ministry over a February 2020 decision by a committee that deals with the security of members of the royal family. The Duke of Sussex, as he is formally known, had been told he would no longer be given th...
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Washington (AFP) - A US Secret Service agent reportedly on duty outside the house of President Joe Biden's granddaughter opened fire during an attempted break-in of an official vehicle, authorities said Monday. Naomi Biden, a 29-year-old lawyer, was made aware of the incident that occurred just before midnight Sunday in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, US media reported. "Secret Service agents encountered possibly three individuals breaking a window on a parked and unoccupied government vehicle," presidential protection service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement....
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