President Biden issued an executive order authorizing the Attorney General to prevent the large-scale transfer of US citizens’ personal data to, as the White House refers, ‘countries of concern.’
The executive order mainly focuses on commercial data brokers, which are legal in the US, that could sell US citizens’ and government officials’ personal data to ‘countries of concern.’ The White House warns that such data could end up in foreign military services, militaries, or other foreign government companies and thus infringe on US national security.
