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alp227

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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 12:49 PM Jun 2020

U.S. senators unveil bill to curb foreign espionage, influence on campuses

Source: Reuters

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday aimed at protecting research and innovation on U.S. campuses and preventing suspected theft of intellectual property by China and other countries.

There is a growing push in Washington to clamp down on spying and intellectual property theft that some Chinese nationals are suspected of engaging in at U.S. universities and colleges.

The “Safeguarding American Innovation Act” proposes to strengthen the U.S. State Department’s authority to deny visas to foreign nationals seeking access to certain sensitive technologies related to U.S. national security and economic security interests.

It also proposes penalizing individuals with fines and imprisonment for failing to disclose foreign support on federal grant applications, as well as lowering the threshold for U.S. schools and universities to report foreign gifts.



Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-education/u-s-senators-unveil-bill-to-curb-foreign-espionage-influence-on-campuses-idUSKBN23P1M5



From Sen. Portman's press release:

Today, Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Tom Carper (D-DE), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), James Risch (R-ID), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), John Barrasso (R-WY), Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV), Rick Scott (R-FL), Mike Braun (R-IN), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) introduced the Safeguarding American Innovation Act, bipartisan legislation to help stop foreign governments, particularly China, from stealing American taxpayer-funded research and intellectual property developed at U.S. colleges and universities.
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U.S. senators unveil bill to curb foreign espionage, influence on campuses (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2020 OP
Er,, just wondering........ MyOwnPeace Jun 2020 #1
Oh... nice one! NotHardly Jun 2020 #3
That would require people on campuses for them to be spied on. Initech Jun 2020 #2
A solution in search of a problem. henbuck Jun 2020 #4
I know, it's something that could never happen. Igel Jun 2020 #5

Initech

(99,915 posts)
2. That would require people on campuses for them to be spied on.
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:30 PM
Jun 2020

That doesn't really work in the virtual world unless their Zoom password happens to be 123456.

Igel

(35,197 posts)
5. I know, it's something that could never happen.
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 03:08 PM
Jun 2020
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/officer-china-s-people-s-liberation-army-arrested-los-angeles-international-airport

Every couple of months there is this kind of arrest--typically not involving PLA staff as such, but some sort of academic theft--maybe hard drives, jump drives, samples.

"What we don't know doesn't exist for the knowing" is how our brains are wired.
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