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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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[-] solrize@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

abroad

Why not everywhere?

[-] kayazere@feddit.nl 30 points 4 months ago

The US government is one of the buyers

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

Barring foreigners from the market gives American companies an edge. Forbidding it everywhere gives them... a blunt? Is that where the term comes from?

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