Tag: National Security
TikTok, PAFACA, and the New National Security Playbook
(Source) TikTok is a defining part of modern American culture, particularly among younger Americans, with 170 million domestic users on the app. Yet, TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, has received heavy scrutiny from U.S. regulators and officials who are concerned that the Chinese government could steal access to American users’ data or manipulate the platform’s algorithms…
13 Jan 2026
Trump’s Muslim Immigration Ban – Concerning but Likely Constitutional
President Trump has recently signed an executive order, titled “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals,” that restricts visits and immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. Trump’s executive order has sparked widespread protest and backlash from Muslim support groups, and has routinely been characterized as “racist.”…
8 Feb 2017
Mass Government Surveillance: The Price of a Secure Nation?
By: Danny Ho Mass government surveillance is a unique issue of concern in our increasingly technological era. Mass surveillance refers to the government’s indiscriminate monitoring of a large group of people through collection of large sets of data such as telephone records, emails, and internet activity. This issue gained public attention in 2013 when Edward…
7 Nov 2016