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submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How about not producing it in the first place? As Russian I have no doubt Chinese spying agencies will obtain it anyway. Russian spying agency maybe will obtain it too.

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

they'll just buy it from someone else who is not restricted; second, third, fourth hand. Or just wait for yet another inevitable data breach since there is no enforcement or accountability for that.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

That's why I say it should not be collected in first place