Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad::President Biden’s latest executive order directs several government departments to establish regulations to keep data from being sent to countries like China and Russia.
abroad
Why not everywhere?
The US government is one of the buyers
Barring foreigners from the market gives American companies an edge. Forbidding it everywhere gives them… a blunt? Is that where the term comes from?
The President does not have the authority to outlaw selling of personal date in general. This is why it’s being limited to a select few countries of concern and not all. There are national security concerns with these countries in particular.
So they sell it all to a shell company in India, which then resells it to China. We all know how this works without actual penalties and actual enforcement. GDPR is successful because it has actual teeth, even for companies that are not HQ’d in Europe (but do business with EU citizens).