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Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad (www.theverge.com)

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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.

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[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The President does not have the authority to outlaw selling of personal data 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.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

The US restricts export of certain hardware for matters of national security too, and doing it through shell corporations would get them in trouble too.