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30 Sep 2022, 1:57 pm by Hyemin Han
Evan Greer and Lia Holland argued that the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanction of the mixing service Tornado Cash’s autonomous code threatens free speech and privacy online and how its sanctions should be clarified. [read post]
30 Sep 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The uncertainty of which parties will control the Senate and House next year has helped to motivate donors. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 11:53 am by Hadley Baker
Articles  Tornado Cash Sanctions Are Unduly “Creative” With the First Amendment  Evan Greer and Lia Holland argued that the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s sanction of the mixing service Tornado Cash’s autonomous code threatens free speech and privacy online and how its sanctions should be clarified. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 5:55 am by Ray Salvatore Jennings
Host government cooperation is particularly helpful in controlling institutional competition over resources, in reducing bureaucratic inertia, in directing resources to common priorities, and in dedicating long-term expertise to reconstruction efforts. [read post]
29 Sep 2022, 5:16 am by Evan Greer, Lia Holland
In August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) followed Weaver’s advice. [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 7:00 am by Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk
§4813(c)(1)(A)(i)), section 620A(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 USC §2371(a)), and section 40(d) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. [read post]
14 Sep 2022, 2:36 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Instead, the gist of the complaint is that the company actively mislead investors and others about the state of its cybersecurity controls and effectiveness. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 1:20 pm by Seth Davis
In particular – and here is a connection with administrative agencies, if not administrative law – the plaintiff’s complaint alleged that various financial institutions evaded the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) “filter” that aims to block financial transactions with, among others, “state sponsors of terrorism” and “specially designated global terrorists. [read post]
9 Sep 2022, 4:26 am by Emma Snell
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control placed sanctions on four companies, including an Iranian air transport provider, and one company executive in connection with Tehran’s sale of Shahed drones. [read post]
8 Sep 2022, 5:01 am by Stewart Baker
But what about users who were counting on that security to protect their assets? [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 8:22 am by George Croner
Background: Sources and Methods and the Classification System Sources and methods are the assets, techniques, programs, processes and capabilities used by the Intelligence Community to collect the substantive information that is analyzed, distilled, and provided to consumers of intelligence product ranging from the president of the United States, to cabinet secretaries, to high-ranking military officers, or to a platoon leader on the battlefield. [read post]
23 Aug 2022, 5:00 am by Anna Price
The following is a guest post by Carson Lloyd, a foreign law intern working in the Global Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress under the supervision of Louis Myers, a foreign, comparative, and international legal reference librarian. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 10:56 am by Kurt Opsahl
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)'s placement of “Tornado Cash” as an entity on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) sanction list raises important questions that are being discussed around the world. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 4:46 am by Emma Snell
-led effort is a plan to transfer billions in foreign-held Afghan central bank assets into a proposed Swiss-based trust fund. [read post]
20 Aug 2022, 9:22 am by Benjamin Pollard
Stewart Baker shared an episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast in which he and David Aitel sat down with Michael Fischerkeller to discuss Fischerkeller’s book, “Cyber Persistence Theory: Redefining National Security in Cyberspace”: Nicholas Weaver discussed the impact of the Office of Foreign Asset Control’s designation of Tornado Cash to the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List on cryptocurrency. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 7:08 am by Mark D. Rasch
Guidance promulgated by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control make it clear that U.S. companies that make payments, including ransom payments, to these entities will be held strictly liable for violating the sanctions regime, regardless of the fact that they not only don’t know they are making a prohibited payment, but have no effective way to find this out. [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 5:01 am by Nicholas Weaver
The cryptocurrency ecology has now run into a regulator that thinks nothing is too big to regulate: The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). [read post]