Posted 2/28/2024, 10:00:29 AM
Biden to Restrict Sale of Americans' Personal Data to Foreign Adversaries
- Biden to issue executive order limiting sale of Americans' personal data to "countries of concern" like Russia and China
- Aims to address national security risks from unregulated multibillion-dollar data broker industry
- Bars bulk sale of sensitive personal data like location, genomic, financial to blacklist countries
- Unclear how exactly order will be enforced within Justice Department
- Biden urges Congress to pass comprehensive bipartisan privacy legislation