SAN JOSE, Calif.--Lend your smartphone to a friend, go to jail. Well, it's not quite that drastic, but if that friend is a foreign national, the very act of handing that phone over can violate U.S. technology-export compliance laws.
That's just one of the sobering anecdotes that Larry Disenhof dishes out during his presentations on the complex, sometimes arcane, but deadly serious world of export control regulations. Disenhof, Cadence Group Director, Export Compliance & Government Relations, gave members of the EDAC Consortium his latest overview Wednesday (Sept. 18) here.