Biden to issue executive order aimed at protecting Americans’ sensitive data from China, other 'hostile countries'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : "American privacy concerns in the data broker industry are not new, and existing laws do not sufficiently protect Americans' data from misuse," the letter said.
50% : Hostile countries can use this data "to track Americans (including military service members), pry into their personal lives, and pass that data on to other data brokers and foreign intelligence services," according to a White House fact sheet."The sale of Americans' data raises significant privacy, counterintelligence, blackmail risks and other national security risks-especially for those in the military or national security community," the White House said in a release on the new E.O."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.

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