Kaspersky Lab has filed a new lawsuit over the U.S. government’s decision to ban its products in federal agencies, this time challenging the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The NDAA for Fiscal Year 2018 was
signed by President Donald Trump in mid-December and it reinforced the binding operational directive (BOD)
issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in September, which ordered government agencies to stop using products from Kaspersky due to concerns regarding its ties to Russian intelligence.
Kaspersky
filed a lawsuit to appeal the BOD on December 18, a few days after President Trump signed the NDAA. Last month, the security firm filed an
injunction in an effort to expedite the appeal.
The government
filed a response to the injunction earlier this month and Kaspersky responded this week with a
new lawsuit that challenges the NDAA as a bill of attainder.
A bill of attainder is a legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial. Legislative bills of attainder are banned by the U.S. constitution.
