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 Departments 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:
MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)anything about "foreign influence or disclosing gifts for elections?"
NotHardly
(1,062 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)That doesn't really work in the virtual world unless their Zoom password happens to be 123456.
henbuck
(44 posts)Just like counter measures for voter fraud.
Igel
(35,197 posts)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.