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Twitter | April 20, 2020

Twitter will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the US government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after nearly six-years of legal battle. The social media company had sued the US Department of Justice in 2014 to be allowed to reveal, as part of its “Draft Transparency Report”, the surveillance requests it received. It argued its free-speech rights were being violated by not being allowed to r...

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OneWeb | May 11, 2021

OneWeb, the worldwide interchanges network fueled by Space, declared today it has gone into an authoritative consent to secure Texas-based TrustComm Inc., which will empower OneWeb to offer its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) organization and availability administrations to U.S. government customers and TrustComm clients. Based at the exceptionally secure Ellington Joint Base in Houston, Texas, TrustComm was set up in 1999 as a supplier of oversaw satellite correspondences and expert admini...

The US Department of Transportation | February 20, 2020

The US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has awarded more than $280 million in discretionary grant funding to improve the infrastructure of the nation’s ports. In a statement, US Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao ports are “gateways to the world and port infrastructure investments will improve the regional economy, increase productivity and economic competitiveness”....

Amazon Web Services | February 20, 2020

Andy Jassy, Amazon Web Services CEO, would have no problem selling the company’s facial recognition software Rekognition to law enforcement and foreign governments, except to those banned from doing business with U.S. companies, he said in an interview with Frontline, PBS reports. The statement was made last September during the filming of ‘Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos,’ when filmmakers interviewed six Amazon executives and nine previous employees about the c...