"He also launched a whole of government effort to advance racial equity and root out systemic racism from federal programs and institutions. This order protects nation's treasures by reviewing the boundaries for several national monuments, places a temporary moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing in the Arctic national wildlife refuge and reestablishes the interagency working group on the social cost of greenhouse gases. In a second broad executive order, Biden rolled back harmful regulatory reversals made by the previous administration to protect public health and the environment. "He (Biden) rejoined the Paris climate agreement putting the United States back in a position to exercise global leadership in advancing the objectives of the ambitious agreement," Psaki said. In response, the president asked the education department to extend the pause on student loan payments and interest, she said. The pandemic has also increased the hardships of millions of Americans who owe federal student loans. Noting that COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an almost unprecedented housing affordability crisis, Psaki said the president took immediate action to confront the crisis and asked relevant agencies to extend nationwide moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures. He re-established the national security team responsible for global health, security and bio-defence. "This will strengthen our own efforts to get the (coronavirus) pandemic under control by improving global health, and tomorrow we are not wasting any time," she said.īiden also officially appointed a COVID-19 response coordinator, a position and team that he had already previously announced but made it official today to create a unified national response to the pandemic. The president signed an executive order reversing Trump's decision to withdraw from the World Health Organisation, she said. John Scott-Railton, a researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab who has studied spyware, told the Associated Press that the US had not previously “wielded its purchasing power to push the industry to do better”.Addressing her maiden news conference on Wednesday, Psaki said Biden has signed 15 executive orders and two other directives. Privacy advocates have welcomed Monday’s executive order. In December 2021, the news agency Reuters reported that NSO Group software had been used to hack the phones of at least nine staff members at the US Department of State. The White House also confirmed on Monday that US government personnel abroad “have been targeted by commercial spyware” without providing details. Countries such as Mexico, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been accused of using the software to target journalists and human rights groups.īREAKING News: □□ issues Executive Order: limits federal government use of commercial #spyware from vendors that target US persons + facilitate human rights violations / transnational repression… However, human rights groups have warned that commercial spyware has made surveillance tools more widely available. The decision also does not apply to spyware created by government institutions such as the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, both of which have histories of unlawful surveillance activities. It includes exceptions for government agencies to use spyware programmes if the agency head determines that the software does not pose a counterintelligence or national security risk. The order was announced as the US prepares to host a “ summit for democracy” later this week.
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