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.
What’s stopping a middle man in any other country from buying data and selling it to Russia / China?
The incredibly weak threat of not being able to buy more data if they’re caught? Maybe? Doesn’t seem like a big deterrent either way.
Now do American companies and institutions
Wasn’t the bigger controversy about law enforcement and intelligence agencies buying it to bypass the need for warrants?
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.
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.
