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TechTarget's Government Regulation of Tech Coverage

Issue or Publication date:
04/06/2023; 04/13/2023; 07/17/23;

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TechTarget CIO

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TechTarget

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TechTarget's mission is to provide information on vendors, trends and federal tech policies that could affect CIOs and other business leaders making buying decisions.
In my role as the big tech and federal regulation reporter for TechTarget, I pay attention to technology policy discussions happening in Congress through watching hearings weekly, researching technology bills being introduced and keeping an eye on federal lawsuits targeting big tech companies. My aim through this approach is to key into major technology topics that Congress is paying attention to.
Artificial intelligence remained one of the top technologies discussed this year. When writing about AI rules that countries globally have been debating, I felt it was important for business leaders to know why governments are considering setting guardrails around the technology and how that could impact them. In the AI rules article, I sought to showcase how multiple governments are seeking information on AI and though countries have been slow to advance AI regulations, they will likely be coming at some point and business leaders need to prepare.
For the U.S., competition with China was also top of mind in 2023. President Joe Biden implemented export controls in October 2022 limiting the sale of advanced semiconductor and AI technologies to China, which inevitably impacted U.S. businesses. This article was important to pursue because it demonstrated how businesses have had to take different approaches to navigating tensions between the U.S. and China.
When the RESTRICT Act was introduced earlier this year, a large focus was on its goal to ban TikTok, a popular social media app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance. Upon further digging into the bill when it was introduced, I discovered that the U.S. would not just ban TikTok, but any hardware or software enabling data processing, transmission and storage in countries like China. I felt like that point was underreported, seeing how there are several apps and technologies beyond TikTok that could be affected by that bill. My goal with this story was to alert CIOs to the implications of the RESTRICT Act for enterprise businesses should it be passed into law.

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