The measure targets the business of selling people’s personal information, which the White House said could be used “to track Americans (including military service members), pry into their personal lives," and be passed on to foreign intelligence.
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order Wednesday intended to safeguard the personal data of American citizens from countries deemed hostile.
The executive order centers on the business of selling people’s personal information, in which companies and so-called data brokers collect and trade data. The Biden Administration is worried that data brokers and other commercial entities will sell this information to “countries of concern-which have a track record of collecting and misusing data on Americans.”
Lawmakers and intelligence agencies have previously expressed concerns that the Chinese Communist Party is amassing a wealth of U.S. data, posing national security concerns.
The order focusses on specific, sensitive information like genomic data, biometric data, personal health data, geolocation data, financial data and other kinds of personally identifiable information.
Copy the GDPR, America
I dare you
Wouldn’t that be nice. Guess I’ll just continue to allegedly fire up a VPN so I get served the EU version of websites. Bonjour, je suis Elliot.
Don’t think that’s in the scope of an executive action
How about an executive order aimed at Amazon, Trader Joe’s, SpaceX, and the rest of the cimpanies attempting to dismantle our rights as laborers?
Or, y’know, the actual government of the USA. Throwback Thursday: https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/
Could you elaborate on what you’d like that executive order to do? They’re trying to attack our rights through the judicial branch, an executive order is limited to instructing administrations in the executive branch within the limits of the responsibilities those administrations can perform.
Nice whataboutism.
Doing a good thing is a good thing even if it doesn’t address all the ills in the world. The labor rights abuses are unrelated to this action.
Its not a whataboutism. They are actually in a lawsuit right now claiming that the NLRB is unconstitutional. So no, there are no good things when your rights as a laborer are up in the air.
Because the article isn’t about China stealing data, it’s about what Biden is doing and the post is asking why we can’t get the same thing done about the problem domestically. Nowhere is anyone down playing one for the other.
American companies stealing your data and selling it to the highest bidder world-wide: Look at this free market!
Chinese company doing the exact same thing: Look at what Biden is doing to protect us!
This is just more Red Scare bullshit. If you actually cared about your people and weren’t just worried about China you’d make data collection illegal without express consent and compensation for those being harvested.
Fark! I replied on the wrong comment. Was intending the commenter you replied to. You and i are simpatico. Sorry for the confusion!
Just because what you’re talking about is also true doesn’t mean that it’s not whataboutism. Switching topics like this is the definition of whataboutism.
There is a word for loudly condemning someone while simultaneously doing the things they are. This practice is so old Romans 2:1 mentions it. So why make a big stink about Chinese companies and write legislation while letting American companies do the exact same thing? Because one specifically hurts China. Its not about your safety or protection.
Wait how exactly is this not whataboutism? You’ve brought up a completely tangential fact. A fact, yes, but tangential.
American companies are doing the exact same, I see no motion to end the american data collection industry. Then they use their wealth and power to strip our rights. Yet he is worried about Chinese companies? As far as I’m concerned, Chinese companies are not directly sueing my government to abolish my rights using the wealth and power they’ve obtained by harvesting my data.
American companies are doing the exact same, I see no motion to end the american data collection industry.
Lemme rephrase that for you.
What about American companies that do the exact same?
If you’re against data collection, this is a win. Maybe not enough of a win for some folks, but a win.
I just think our own companies are the worst offenders.
Nice. That covers foreign - now do domestic.
I see what you did there, but I’ll take it. Since Congress isn’t going to touch it with a $500,000 pole.
Sad Edward Snowden noises
But then they wouldn’t have the opportunity to sell our data to China.
How the fuck can we sit here and call China a “hostile” country when our Walmarts are still full of their shit? I guess not hostile enough to not want that sweet cheap-ass plastic lawn chair.
Trade between hostile countries has been a thing since forever. To take WW2 as an example, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were signing fresh trade deals with each other right up until a few months before Operation Barbarossa
Yes, but we’re enabling them by doing so. It’s hypocritical.
How about some fucking executive orders to protect American workers. You know, the 99% of the country that has been getting ass fucked by corporations for decades?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order Wednesday intended to safeguard the personal data of American citizens from countries deemed hostile.
“Countries of concern can also access Americans’ sensitive personal data to collect information on activists, academics, journalists, dissidents, political figures, and members of non-governmental organizations and marginalized communities to intimidate opponents of countries of concern, curb dissent, and limit Americans’ freedom of expression and other civil liberties,” the White House said.
The executive order will direct the Department of Justice to issue several regulations intended to protect sensitive data.
Additionally, the order directs the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the United States Telecommunications Services Sector “to consider the threats to Americans’ sensitive personal data” when they conduct reviews of submarine cable licenses.
“These actions not only align with the U.S.′ longstanding support for the trusted free flow of data, but also are consistent with U.S.′ commitment to an open Internet with strong and effective protections for individuals’ privacy and measures to preserve governments’ abilities to enforce laws and advance policies in the public interest,” the White House explainer read.
Last week, the Biden administration announced an executive order intended to improve the cybersecurity of U.S. ports.
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This is going to hurt Biden’s chances. Stop trying to help the American people you old fossil. Go back eating ice cream or something, surely that’s won’t be controversial.
