House passes bill to prevent the sale of personal data to foreign adversaries (www.theverge.com)

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It passed a week after the TikTok divestment bill.

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[-] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How about preventing the sale of personal data, full stop?

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

or even better: Their collection

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 11 points 7 months ago

Why would they stop the easy way around needing warrants to spy on citizens?

[-] kaboom36@ani.social 4 points 7 months ago

Its a step closer at least

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Because that would be effective.

The house doesn't care about americans or effective governance. Domestic adversaries are of far more consequence to americans.

[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Good news for Americans.

[-] extant@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

More like good news for foreign non-adversarial middlemen who have no problem selling it to those nations for a cut. If you don't prevent the data collection from taking place it will still get passed around.

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