FCC Spotlight: Inside the FCC’s Expanding National Security Mandate

From satellites to medical devices, wireless networks to printers, a new national security regulator has come to town: the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Leveraging its traditional authorities as a regulator of spectrum, communications services, and consumer protection, the FCC has increasingly used its ability to govern entry into those sectors to impose new national security requirements for doing business in the U.S. in recent years. Parties who intentionally emit radiofrequency…
By: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati