President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Wednesday designed to curb adversarial nations from acquiring and exploiting the sensitive personal data of Americans, including U.S. government officials and servicemembers.
The Biden administration is seeking to prohibit transactions that data brokers make to 'countries of concern' on grounds that such data can be surreptitiously processed by foreign hackers or intelligence operatives, enabling myriad national security risks and exposing American citizens to surveillance, blackmail and other privacy violations, said a senior administration official.
The order directs DOJ and others to initiate an early-stage rulemaking process in which the directed agencies will seek comments from the public and organizations about how to best build and enforce the regulatory framework.
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