{"id":724,"date":"2024-04-05T05:20:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/house-passes-bill-that-would-bar-data-brokers-from-selling-americans-personal-information-to-adversary-countries-004735748\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T05:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T05:20:10","slug":"house-passes-bill-that-would-bar-data-brokers-from-selling-americans-personal-information-to-adversary-countries-004735748","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aitesonics.com\/house-passes-bill-that-would-bar-data-brokers-from-selling-americans-personal-information-to-adversary-countries-004735748\/","title":{"rendered":"House passes bill that would bar data brokers from selling Americans' personal information to 'adversary' countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
The House of Representatives approved<\/a> a measure targeting data brokers\u2019 ability to sell Americans\u2019 personal data to \u201cadversary\u201d countries, like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. The Protecting Americans\u2019 Data from Foreign Adversaries Act passed with a unanimous 414 – 0 vote.<\/p>\n The bill<\/a>, which was introduced alongside a measure that could force a ban or sale of TikTok, would prohibit data brokers from selling Americans\u2019 \u201csensitive\u201d data to people or entities in \u201cadversary\u201d countries. Much like a recent executive order<\/a> from President Joe Biden targeting data brokers, the bill specifically covers geolocation, financial, health, and biometric data, as well as other private information like text logs and phone call history.<\/p>\n If passed \u2014 the bill will need Senate approval before landing on Biden’s desk \u2014 it would represent a significant check on the relatively unregulated<\/a> data broker industry. US officials have previously warned that China and other geopolitical rivals of the United States have already acquired vast troves of Americans\u2019 information from brokers and privacy advocates have long urged lawmakers to regulate the multibillion-dollar industry.<\/p>\n The bill is the second major piece of bipartisan legislation to come out of the House Energy and Commerce this month. The committee previously introduced the \u201cProtecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,\u201d which would require TikTok to divest itself from parent company ByteDance or face a ban in the US. In a statement<\/a>, Representatives Frank Pallone and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, said that the latest bill \u201cbuilds\u201d on their work to pass the measure targeting TikTok. \u201cToday\u2019s overwhelming vote sends a clear message that we will not allow our adversaries to undermine American national security and individual privacy by purchasing people\u2019s personally identifiable sensitive information from data brokers,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The House of Representatives approved a measure targeting data brokers\u2019 ability to sell Americans\u2019 personal data to \u201cadversary\u201d countries, like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. The Protecting Americans\u2019 Data from Foreign Adversaries Act passed with a unanimous 414 – 0 vote. The bill, which was introduced alongside a measure that could force a ban […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[704,48,95,556],"tags":[705,59,101,559],"yoast_head":"\n