The data-privacy bill passed Wednesday, the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, H.R. 7520, is highly targeted: It prevents any companies considered data brokers — third-party buyers and sellers of personal information — from selling that information to China, Russia or other “foreign adversaries.”
The data law passed the House on Wednesday, 414-0
It’s still just a baby step. Police, corporations, and non-adversary nations will still be able to buy all the information they want about you from these data brokers. We need laws that make our information ours, and not the property of anyone who is able to skim it off the net or phone apps.