Biden signs executive order to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data
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President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans’ personal data to “countries of concern,” including Russia and China.

Biden signs executive order to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data | The bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be off-limits to “countries of conc…::President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans’ personal data to “countries of concern,” including Russia and China.

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    10 months ago

    This is just like Canada banning foreign investment in real estate. It admits there’s a problem, data harvesting , homes as investments, but just solves a small part of the problem pertaining to “foreign bad guys” while ignoring the larger domestic issue.

    All it does is make the government look like they did something without actually confronting the powerful interests that are causing the problem.

    • SpeakinTelnet@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      Especially that this was mostly a smoke screen considering how easy it is to register a company in Canada and then buy estate from said company. Suddenly it isn’t foreign investment anymore.