White House Aims to Curb Data Broker Sales to Foreign Countries

A new executive order issued by the Biden administration aims to stop "countries of concern" - like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela - from accessing sensitive American data.

Personal, financial, geolocation and biometric data is frequently accessed via breaches, but the executive order instead focuses on the collection of this type of data through the legal commercial market. While privacy experts have cited various concerns over the years with how data brokers broadly access, utilize and share …

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