Commerce Department promises safeguards to prevent surveillance tech sales abroad

The Commerce Department has implemented new policies to stop the promotion of surveillance technologies to foreign governments. In a letter to Senator Ron (D-OR) Wyden, who expressed concern to the agency about the spread of the tools in May, the Commerce Department laid out the steps its International Trade Administration (ITA) has taken to curb

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