Bipartisan bill would protect Americans’ data from export abroad

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) introduced legislation on Wednesday to stop “high-risk” foreign countries from exploiting Americans’ data, applying criminal and civil penalties on companies who illegally export digital information. A bipartisan group of six legislators from both the Senate and the House of Representatives are co-sponsoring the so-called Protecting Americans’

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