The measure targets the business of selling people’s personal information, which the White House said could be used “to track Americans (including military service members), pry into their personal lives," and be passed on to foreign intelligence.
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order Wednesday intended to safeguard the personal data of American citizens from countries deemed hostile.
The executive order centers on the business of selling people’s personal information, in which companies and so-called data brokers collect and trade data. The Biden Administration is worried that data brokers and other commercial entities will sell this information to “countries of concern-which have a track record of collecting and misusing data on Americans.”
Lawmakers and intelligence agencies have previously expressed concerns that the Chinese Communist Party is amassing a wealth of U.S. data, posing national security concerns.
The order focusses on specific, sensitive information like genomic data, biometric data, personal health data, geolocation data, financial data and other kinds of personally identifiable information.
Because the article isn’t about China stealing data, it’s about what Biden is doing and the post is asking why we can’t get the same thing done about the problem domestically. Nowhere is anyone down playing one for the other.
American companies stealing your data and selling it to the highest bidder world-wide: Look at this free market!
Chinese company doing the exact same thing: Look at what Biden is doing to protect us!
This is just more Red Scare bullshit. If you actually cared about your people and weren’t just worried about China you’d make data collection illegal without express consent and compensation for those being harvested.
Fark! I replied on the wrong comment. Was intending the commenter you replied to. You and i are simpatico. Sorry for the confusion!