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Former U.S. officials call for transparency in cybersecurity of 2020 Census

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Nearly a dozen former U.S. officials with cybersecurity and intelligence backgrounds are calling on the Census Bureau to be open about how it plans to protect the troves of sensitive information it will collect in the 2020 Census. In a letter released Monday by the Georgetown University Law Center, 11 officials write that Americans deserve to know that the systems and technical protocols the bureau is using will not put collected information at risk. “This is especially important in an age in which new types and sources of cybersecurity threats seem to emerge almost weekly,” the officials say, addressing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin. Signatories on the letter include former White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen and other Obama administration officials. Cybersecurity is especially pertinent for the upcoming census because it will be the first to allow […]

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Senators want Commerce to help U.S. firms ditch ZTE

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A bipartisan trio of senators have asked the Department of Commerce to clarify that U.S. companies are welcome to remove products from their networks made by controversial Chinese telecom company ZTE. Republican Sens. Tom Cotton, Ark., and Marco Rubio, Fla., along with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., say they strongly support the department’s April “denial order” barring ZTE from buying U.S. technology components for seven years. However, the senators are concerned that the order is ambiguous to the point of hindering the removal of ZTE gear from U.S. infrastructure. On Monday, they wrote Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross asking his department to issue guidance and waivers to help U.S. companies clear their networks of ZTE software and hardware. U.S. officials have long warned that the Chinese government could leverage technology built by ZTE and fellow Chinese telecom Huawei to spy on Americans – accusations the companies deny. The Commerce Department […]

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