An article in the New York Times describes a report by Citizen Lab, a Canadian Internet research firm, that reveals that equipment useful for Internet surveillance and censorship manufactured by California-based Blue Coat is being used by repressive regimes such…
A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) told Export Law Blog this morning that discussions between OFAC and the North Pole over Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve itinerary had broken down and were not expected to…
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has taken the old Iran sanctions regulations, torn them up, thrown them away and issued a new set of regulations, now remonikered, for good measure, as the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions Regulations (“ITSR,”…
Will Watkins, one of the organizers of the Global Trade Controls Conference (see the ad in the right column), asked me to post the following: The 25th annual Global Trade Controls conference is taking place in London on 13 and…
United Against Nuclear Iran (“UANI”) is at it again, and the latest windmill in its quixotic quest at ending all international commerce with Iran is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) because, apparently, Iran is still connected…