President Biden will issue an executive order updating countries of “concern” that have no business or trading relationship with the U.S., for example, sanctioned countries like Russia.
President Biden’s motive for cutting off data-sharing agreements with countries of concern is to protect U.S. citizens’ personal data. The order will also safeguard other activities that could enable their access to Americans’ data and align big companies with a mass dataset of citizen data.
Sensitive information protected by the order will include “genomic data, biometric data, personal health data, geolocation data, financial data, and certain kinds of personally identifiable information”. Data exploitation by bad actors could be passed onto other scammers, data brokers and foreign intelligence services, violating the privacy of U.S. citizens outside of their own data protection measures.
