Biden to issue executive order aimed at protecting Americans’ sensitive data from China and other ‘hostile countries’
Biden to issue executive order aimed at protecting Americans’ sensitive data from China and other ‘hostile countries’
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.
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.
Copy the GDPR, America
I dare you
Wouldn’t that be nice. Guess I’ll just continue to allegedly fire up a VPN so I get served the EU version of websites. Bonjour, je suis Elliot.
Don't think that's in the scope of an executive action
How about an executive order aimed at Amazon, Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and the rest of the cimpanies attempting to dismantle our rights as laborers?
Or, y'know, the actual government of the USA. Throwback Thursday: https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/
Could you elaborate on what you'd like that executive order to do? They're trying to attack our rights through the judicial branch, an executive order is limited to instructing administrations in the executive branch within the limits of the responsibilities those administrations can perform.
Nice whataboutism.
Doing a good thing is a good thing even if it doesn't address all the ills in the world. The labor rights abuses are unrelated to this action.
Nice. That covers foreign - now do domestic.
I see what you did there, but I'll take it. Since Congress isn't going to touch it with a $500,000 pole.
Sad Edward Snowden noises
But then they wouldn't have the opportunity to sell our data to China.
How the fuck can we sit here and call China a "hostile" country when our Walmarts are still full of their shit? I guess not hostile enough to not want that sweet cheap-ass plastic lawn chair.
Trade between hostile countries has been a thing since forever. To take WW2 as an example, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were signing fresh trade deals with each other right up until a few months before Operation Barbarossa
Yes, but we're enabling them by doing so. It's hypocritical.
How about some fucking executive orders to protect American workers. You know, the 99% of the country that has been getting ass fucked by corporations for decades?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order Wednesday intended to safeguard the personal data of American citizens from countries deemed hostile.
“Countries of concern can also access Americans’ sensitive personal data to collect information on activists, academics, journalists, dissidents, political figures, and members of non-governmental organizations and marginalized communities to intimidate opponents of countries of concern, curb dissent, and limit Americans’ freedom of expression and other civil liberties,” the White House said.
The executive order will direct the Department of Justice to issue several regulations intended to protect sensitive data.
Additionally, the order directs the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector “to consider the threats to Americans’ sensitive personal data” when they conduct reviews of submarine cable licenses.
“These actions not only align with the U.S.′ longstanding support for the trusted free flow of data, but also are consistent with U.S.′ commitment to an open Internet with strong and effective protections for individuals’ privacy and measures to preserve governments’ abilities to enforce laws and advance policies in the public interest,” the White House explainer read.
Last week, the Biden administration announced an executive order intended to improve the cybersecurity of U.S. ports.
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This is going to hurt Biden's chances. Stop trying to help the American people you old fossil. Go back eating ice cream or something, surely that's won't be controversial.