House Unanimously Passes Bill to Protect American User Data from Foreign Threats
• House unanimously passes bill blocking sale of sensitive American user data to hostile foreign countries • Bill aims to keep biometric data, private communications, social security numbers, etc. out of hands of countries like Russia, Iran, China • Part of bipartisan push in Congress to protect American user data from overseas threats • Advanced through House committee in 50-0 vote before passing full House 414-0 • Comes amid separate efforts to ban TikTok over national security concerns about China accessing data of American users