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Dr Alina Polyakova

@apolyakova
24 posts
2023-12-19
The EU has fashioned itself as the global regulator of tech, but the unintended consequences of these regulations can be discriminatory against US companies go against transatlantic unity. Important statement from the US Congress https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-12-19 View on X
Reuters

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers warn Biden that EU technology regulations are unfairly targeting US companies and not including many Chinese or EU companies

and insist that the E.U. administer their digital policies fairly. We cannot jeopardize the our national economy, diminish our global leadership, or jeopardize the security of cons...

2023-05-30
As the EU and US meet for the fourth Trade+Tech Council (TTC), the US should work to engage the tech-savvy countries of North and Central Eastern Europe because on tech, the EU doesn't speak for Europe https://www.politico.eu/...
2023-05-30 View on X
Politico

France and Germany dominate the EU's tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc's smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation

it's in Central and Eastern Europe. It's time that these countries speak with one voice on the kind of digital decade they would like to see. https://www.politico.eu/... @e_estonia...

The future of tech innovation in Europe isn't in France and Germany — it's in Central and Eastern Europe. It's time that these countries speak with one voice on the kind of digital decade they would like to see. https://www.politico.eu/...
2023-05-30 View on X
Politico

France and Germany dominate the EU's tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc's smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation

it's in Central and Eastern Europe. It's time that these countries speak with one voice on the kind of digital decade they would like to see. https://www.politico.eu/... @e_estonia...

2022-03-12
This was inevitable after the ban on Facebook, but unlike FB, Instagram is used by many more Russians. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: Apple and Google removed Kremlin critic Navalny's app in September after FSB agents came to top executives' homes and threatened to take them to prison

Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September …

This was inevitable after the ban on Facebook, but unlike FB, Instagram is used by many more Russians. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Russia moves to designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication

WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, it takes up nearly 60% of all messenger internet traffic. We are talking tens of millions of people having limited access to comms...

2022-03-11
This was inevitable after the ban on Facebook, but unlike FB, Instagram is used by many more Russians. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-11 View on X
Reuters

Meta will temporarily allow some violent speech, like “death to the Russian invaders”, in some countries; internal email: it will allow calls for death of Putin

Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians …

2022-02-01
The clash between Brussels and Washington on tech policy. If you have read the DMA provisions, it's clear that they target US companies exclusively and paper over any national security concerns https://www.politico.eu/...
2022-02-01 View on X
Politico

Doc: the US is pressing EU officials to revise the Digital Markets Act to focus less on US tech giants and ensure it covers tech companies from outside the US

2021-12-27
US companies like Google have been bearing significant costs to push back against the Kremlins censorship. This fine is in addition to 32m the company already paid this year https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-12-27 View on X
Reuters

Russian court fines Google ~$98M and Meta ~$27M for repeated failure to delete content it deems illegal, Russia's first two revenue-based fines of their kind

2021-12-26
US companies like Google have been bearing significant costs to push back against the Kremlins censorship. This fine is in addition to 32m the company already paid this year https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-12-26 View on X
Reuters

Russian court fines Google ~$98M and Meta ~$27M for repeated failure to delete content it deems illegal, Russia's first two revenue-based fines of their kind

A Moscow court on Friday said it was fining Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) 7.2 billion roubles ($98 million) for what it said was a repeated failure …

2021-12-25
US companies like Google have been bearing significant costs to push back against the Kremlins censorship. This fine is in addition to 32m the company already paid this year https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-12-25 View on X
Reuters

Russian court fines Google ~$98M and Meta ~$27M for repeated failure to delete content it deems illegal, Russia's first two revenue-based fines of their kind

A Moscow court on Friday said it was fining Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) 7.2 billion roubles ($98 million) for what it said was a repeated failure …

2021-12-24
US companies like Google have been bearing significant costs to push back against the Kremlins censorship. This fine is in addition to 32m the company already paid this year https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2021-12-24 View on X
Reuters

Russian court fines Google ~$98M for repeated failure to delete content Russia deems illegal, the first revenue-based fine of its kind in the country

A Moscow court on Friday said it was fining Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) 7.2 billion roubles ($98 million) for what it said was a repeated failure …

2021-04-12
Very true: we need the EU, US, and industry at the table on tech policy. TTC could be a powerful mechanism if used to propose concrete solutions. “Trans-Atlantic coordination [on tech policy] has largely become an afterthought, if it's thought of at all” https://www.axios.com/...
2021-04-12 View on X
ZDNet

Google urges Biden admin to join a US-EU technology council to prevent further barriers to trade and data flows, citing an “explosion in national policies”

Google is worried that an “explosion in national policies” is harming technology trade between the US and Europe …

2021-01-04
Time and time again, Moscow is able to take advantage when the US focus is elsewhere. The hack affected 250+ federal agencies and businesses was “aimed not at the election system but at the rest of the US government and many large American corporations.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-01-04 View on X
New York Times

Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering

Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.

2021-01-03
Time and time again, Moscow is able to take advantage when the US focus is elsewhere. The hack affected 250+ federal agencies and businesses was “aimed not at the election system but at the rest of the US government and many large American corporations.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Sources: investigators are checking if SolarWinds was hacked via its offices in Czechia, Poland, and Belarus, where the company moved much of its engineering

Those behind the widespread intrusion into government and corporate networks exploited seams in U.S. defenses and gave away nothing to American monitoring of their systems.

2020-12-19
Russia launched “the biggest cybersecurity breach of federal networks in more than two decades” - this is what happens when we have no cyber deterrence strategy https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-19 View on X
Reuters

An analysis of publicly available web records shows SolarWinds hackers accessed the networks at Cox Communications and the local government in Pima County, AZ

LONDON (Reuters) - Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona …

Russia launched “the biggest cybersecurity breach of federal networks in more than two decades” - this is what happens when we have no cyber deterrence strategy https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-19 View on X
Politico

Sources: Energy Dept. and NNSA, which maintains the US nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that their networks were accessed as part of the SolarWinds hack

and secrets may still be being stolen in ways not yet discovered. https://www.axios.com/... Walter Shaub / @waltshaub : The new president is already doing what the outgoing preside...

2020-12-18
Russia launched “the biggest cybersecurity breach of federal networks in more than two decades” - this is what happens when we have no cyber deterrence strategy https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-12-18 View on X
Microsoft On the Issues

Microsoft identified 40+ customers targeted in the SolarWinds hack, 80% in the US, says the attack is “ongoing” and calls for a global cybersecurity response

The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world's latest serious nation-state cyberattack.

2020-12-16
Long time in the making, the EUs answer to tech regulation enshrines a vision of “digital sovereignty.” What we need is greater transatlantic cooperation not digital walled gardens. https://www.bbc.com/...
2020-12-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

EU proposes two bills governing tech giants, focused on illegal content and anticompetitive behavior, to empower regulators to levy large fines or break them up

Proposed bills would be the bloc's most ambitious internet laws since GDPR  —  European officials want new powers …

2020-09-27
Russia is interfering in our elections today, at this moment, and hacking research groups working on the covid vaccine. The Kremlin is trolling us. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-09-27 View on X
New York Times

Putin calls for a “reboot” between the US and Russia in cyberspace, offering “nonintervention into internal affairs of each other” including in elections

With an eye to a possible Biden presidency, the Russian leader called for a “reboot” on information security but offered no concessions. Tweets: @edbott , @rstephens , @apolyakova ...

2020-07-17
In March, HHS was hit by a cyber attack, while not attributed to Russia at the time, Russia was a likely suspect. Today's attack is part of a pattern. The fact that APT29 is still carrying out such brazen attacks is testament to our tepid response https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US and UK say state-backed Russian hacking group APT29 is responsible for ongoing cyberattacks against orgs involved in the development of coronavirus vaccines

Wall Street Journal :