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Tech giant Google recently expressed it disapproval about a proposed set of exportation control in order to regulate the trade of hacking software of outside of the United States.
The rules were proposed by the U.S. Department of Commerce. According to the Google, the export control being proposed by the U.S. government will have negative repercussion in the worldwide trade of software as well as cripple the security research community.
The proposal was published in May and require companies that has intentions to export Internet surveillance systems, intrusion software and related technologies to secure a license before they will be allowed to export their products, according to Computer World. However, exports to Canada will be exempted from obtaining the required software license.
Google Chrome Security team member Tim Willis posted in a blog, "It would be disastrous outcome if an export regulation intended to make people more secure resulted in billions of users across the globe becoming persistently less secure."
Google export compliance lawyer Neil Martin also said that the proposed regulatory rules will affect the entire tech community's ability to defend their products as well as the ability to make the Internet a safer.
Based on the proposed export control regulation, Google will be forced to obtain license for thousands and even ten thousands of its exported technologies. The search-engine giant said that the proposed regulation will cover most of its communications regarding its software vulnerabilities which would include internal emails, bug tracking system and even instant messages.
Another non-government organization that opposed the proposal is the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The group said that the regulation will expose all software that is used to develop zero-day exploits.
