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• Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are planning to release in coming weeks a bill that would make companies such as Google and Facebook Inc. open to civil lawsuits and state prosecution for child sexual abuse material posted on their platforms, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The sources said industry stakeholders fear the measure would target end-to-end encryption, long the subject of federal law enforcement criticism, by forcing companies to comply with “best practices” determined by a 15-member team led by the attorney general. (Reuters)

• White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters that the administration is planning a 5G summit that would include representatives from Samsung Electronics Co. Other administration officials said the meeting is planned for early April and aimed at limiting Huawei Technologies Co.’s influence in next-generation wireless efforts. (CNBC)

• Facebook is offering to pay users for recordings of their voices through its market research app Viewpoints, which will help train the speech recognition program for its Portal devices. While Facebook said the company won’t share the activity from the app “on Facebook or on other accounts you’ve linked without your permission” or sell the data to third parties, Viewpoints’ data policy notes that some of the information collected from the app could be used for ad targeting or personalizing other Facebook applications. (Financial Times)