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Export controls

Disclosures of technical data to foreign grad students get retired physics professor 4 years in federal prison for export controls violations

July 6, 2009

A retired University of Tennessee physics professor was sentenced to 48 months in prison for using one Chinese and one Iranian graduate student to work on a research project relating to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); for taking a laptop containing restricted technical data with him on a trip to China; and for having information emailed [...]

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Foreign encryption-possession restrictions may catch travelers carrying laptops or smartphones

June 24, 2009

Pillsbury Winthrop lawyer Sanjay Jose Mullick writes about laws restricting the possession of encryption technology, and the surprising possible consequences if those laws were to trap a traveler carrying a laptop computer or a smartphone such as the Blackberry or iPhone.

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