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In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures to supporters outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been in self-imposed exile since 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Julian Assange refuses House request as WikiLeaks colleague slams 'pathetic' hunt for collusion

In this Oct. 30, 2018, photo, Ivanka Trump, right, departs Air Force One with Jared Kushner in Coraopolis, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

Kushner, Ivanka Trump using secret texts, emails to do government business: House investigation

In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a shift apparently intended to blunt both criticism of the company's data handling and potential antitrust action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Facebook stored millions of passwords in plain text

In this Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, a container ship is unloaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Terror watchlist subjects approved to work at ports because of FBI bungling

In this April 29, 2015, file photo, visitors use a laptop computer at a display booth as a security guard stands nearby at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

China 'Great Firewall' protects Communist Party politically, economically

In this Nov. 26, 2014, file photo, passengers leave a departure area after arriving at Logan International Airport in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Feds' cellphone search blocked Palestinian with possible terrorist ties from entering U.S.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, joined by director of Auburn University's McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security, Frank Cilluffo, speaks at George Washington University's Jack Morton Auditorium in Washington, Monday, March 18, 2019 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

DHS chief on cybersecurity threats: 'America is not prepared for this'

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 22, 2017, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., gives reporters an update about the ongoing Russia investigation adding that President Donald Trump's campaign communications may have been "monitored" during the transition period as part of an "incidental collection," on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Devin Nunes files $250 million lawsuit accusing Twitter of conservative 'shadow bans'

From the left, Sergei Ivanov, Russian special representative on questions of ecology and transport, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chief of General Staff of Russia Valery Gerasimov, oversee the test launch of the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle from the Defense Ministry's control room in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018. In the test, the Avangard was launched from the Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains. The Kremlin says it successfully hit a designated practice target on the Kura shooting range on Kamchatka, 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) away. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia's 'hybrid warfare' plan employs military action, cyberattacks to divide West

This Oct. 19, 2017, file photo shows a new voting machine which prints a paper record on display at a polling site in Conyers, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Election security bill would let DHS set cyber standards

In this Tuesday, June 23, 2015, file photo, English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France. Berners-Lee implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

At 30, World Wide Web 'not the web we wanted,' inventor says

This Feb. 3, 2012, file photo shows FBI headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump puts $3.3 billion FBI headquarters proposal on hold

In this Tuesday, March 5, 2019, photo, Chelsea Manning addresses the media outside federal court in Alexandria, Va. The former Army intelligence analyst was ordered to jail Friday, March 8, 2019, for refusing to testify to a Virginia grand jury investigating Wikileaks. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)

Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on WikiLeaks

National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

NSA in 'deliberate process' over future of surveillance program, says spy chief

Chelsea Manning looks up before going on stage Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017 for an appearance at a forum, in Nantucket, Mass. The forum was part of The Nantucket Project's annual gathering on the island of Nantucket. Manning is a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who spent time in prison for sharing classified documents. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Chelsea Manning prepares for reimprisonment for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks probe

Huawei federal lawsuit challenges U.S. security law

U.S. hits back against Chinese cyberattacks

In this May 1, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference in San Jose, Calif. Zuckerberg laid out a new &quot;privacy-focused&quot; vision for social networking on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, says he'll double down on privacy

In this Monday, May 8, 2017, photo, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing: "Russian Interference in the 2016 United States Election." (Associated Press) **FILE**

James Clapper denies lying to Congress about NSA surveillance program

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013 file photo shows the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program. The agency released a statement late Thursday, June 28, 2018, saying it started deleting the records in May after NSA analysts noted &quot;technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunication service providers.&quot; (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

National Security Agency's phone record surveillance program has reportedly ended

In his June 6, 2013, file photo, the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

NSA phone surveillance system quietly suspended, reauthorization uncertain: GOP aide

This Dec. 18, 2018, file photo, shows company signage on display near the Huawei office building at its research and development center in Dongguan, in south China's Guangdong province. China says the U.S. is using a double standard in claiming Chinese law requires telecoms giant Huawei to violate other countries' information security. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Huawei opens Brussels security lab in bid to reassure EU

Neuroscientist Moran Cerf, Ph.D., discusses "smart chip" brain implants with a CBS affiliate in Chicago, March 4, 2019. (Image: CBS News Chicago video screenshot)

Neuroscientist: Brain-chip recipients may soon look at men and think 'put it back in a cage'

Human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor shows Associated Press journalists a screenshot of a spoof text message he received in Ajman, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. Mansoor was recently targeted by spyware that can hack into Apple's iPhone handset. The company said Thursday it was updated its security. The text message reads: "New secrets on the torture of Emirati citizens in jail." (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Phone hacking tools used by feds selling cheaply online; models sold on eBay without being scrubbed

President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, during a meeting with workers. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Trump authorized military cyber campaign against Russian trolls: Report

Michael Cohen, center, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, speaks as he departs after testifying before a closed door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee accompanied by his lawyers, Lanny Davis, left, of Washington, and Michael Monico of Chicago, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Michael Cohen says Trump knew about WikiLeaks email dump beforehand

This undated image provided by attorney Hassan Shibly shows Hoda Muthana, an Alabama woman who left home to join the Islamic State after becoming radicalized online. Muthana realized she was wrong and now wants to return to the United States, Shibly, a lawyer for her family said Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (Hoda Muthana/Attorney Hassan Shibly via AP)

Judge to decide quickly of suit letting woman who joined Islamic State return to U.S.

In this file photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, a view of a Business center, believed to be the location of the new &quot;troll farm&quot; in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)

Pentagon punted Russian trolls offline during U.S. midterms to prevent meddling: Report

This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter icon on a mobile phone, in Philadelphia. Twitter reports earnings Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Twitter under fire from Russian internet regulators over data-localization law

In this Jan. 9, 2019, file photo a sign advertises 5G at the Qualcomm booth at CES International in Las Vegas. 5G is a new technical standard for wireless networks that promises faster speeds; less lag, or latency, when connecting to the network; and the ability to connect many devices to the internet without bogging it down. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Trump backs 5G telecom push, hints at softer stance on Huawei

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