Biden Poised to Limit American Personal Data Going to China

New [executive order](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-07/biden-poised-to-restrict-americans-personal-data-going-to-china) is expected next week, "a new effort to prevent foreign adversaries such as China from accessing troves of Americans’ sensitive personal data"

This is a huge issue - [recent research showed](https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/11/Sherman-et-al-2023-Data-Brokers-and-the-Sale-of-Data-on-US-Military-Personnel.pdf) data brokers could be used by adversaries to buy personal information of members of the US military

The big irony is that those same data brokers get [millions in federal contracts](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/21/data-brokers-privacy-federal-government-00072600) while lobbying against privacy protections. One example is LexisNexis (who was listed in in the …

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