The Watch Vagabond OnlineU.S. government has put the final touches on a sweeping rule that bans foreign access to Americans' bulk sensitive data, carrying out a Feb. 2024 Executive Order from President Joe Biden.
The order creates a new regulatory national security program, overseen by the U.S. Department of Justice, designated with preventing the transfer and exploitation of bulk personal data and certain U.S. government-related data abroad. It targets known "countries of concern," including China (Hong Kong and Macau), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela, and aims to limit their ability to use bulk data for cyber espionage and influence campaigns — or to build U.S citizen profiles used for social engineering and identity theft.
SEE ALSO: CES 2025: Exhibitors, dates, ticket prices, and everything else you must knowCertain types of data are expressly prohibited from being transferred under the new regulation, such as personal identifiers, biometric data like facial scans and voice prints, and precise geolocation data. The rules also designate classes of prohibited, restricted, and exempt data transactions, whether through direct purchase or other commercial means.
"Countries of concern and covered persons can also exploit this data to collect information on activists, academics, journalists, dissidents, political opponents, or members of nongovernmental organizations or marginalized communities to intimidate them; curb political opposition; limit freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, or association; or enable other forms of suppression of civil liberties," the Justice Department writes, warning also of the use of bulk sensitive data to develop more sophisticated artificial intelligence and algorithms at greater national security risk.
The U.S. government has been investing more regulatory might into data privacy, with aims to more intensely monitor and limit the passage of Americans' sensitive personal data abroad. The Biden administration's TikTok ban, which forces the popular social media platform to divest from its China-owned parent company on the grounds of national security, is currently being considered by the Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments on Jan. 10. President-elect Donald Trump has recently reversed his stance on banning the platform.
In December, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a new set of proposed rules that would limit the ability of data brokers to sell individuals' personal and financial data, recategorizing data brokerage under the same oversight as credit bureaus and background check companies.
The new Justice Department limits come amid several high-profile espionage attempts by foreign nations and actors, including a recent U.S. Treasury breach by China-backed hackers that overrode internal security systems and accessed unclassified documents. The breach was announced on the heels of a string of cyberattacks infiltrating users' personal data stored by major telecommunications companies — another China-linked hacking network known as Salt Typhoon.
SEE ALSO: Healthcare giant admits over 5 million patients affected by ransomware attackTopics Privacy Social Good Politics
Making Sausage of Salazar
This '13 Reasons Why' theory says someone is a ghost which lol no way
Internet reminds politician that no, actually, slavery was the worst
All hail the Trump Twitter bump
The Gray Place
'Frozen 2' sets official release date so get ready for more ice princess songs
Ed Sheeran makes dying fan's wish come true with a heartwarming backstage meeting
'Call of Duty: WWII' multiplayer adds a social space inspired by 'Warcraft'
Watch NASA video of total lunar eclipse from space
'Indiana Jones 5' will hit theaters a year later than expected
Transfer Steam Games to a New Drive Without Redownloading
Turns out Serena Williams' pregnancy announcement was all an accident
Michael Bloomberg called 'bullsh*t' on this energy technology
Your headphones aren't spying on you, but your apps are. Here's why.
The Lying Game
United is in trouble yet again after giant rabbit dies on flight
Sofia Vergara will probably not have a career in bull riding. At least on inflatable ones.
Heath Ledger's sister lays those Joker rumors to rest
Feminists of the Basque Country
If you have a spare $1.4 million lying around, you can get this solid gold Darth Vader mask
Janine di Giovanni: The Art of War ReportingSomething You Never Want to Hear a Man Say—“It’s Like Sex, Right?”Now Online: Our Interviews with Gordon Lish and Jane & Michael SternStaff Picks: Joanna Walsh, Benjamin Hale, Colin BarrettCancel Your Plans—the Guggenheim Has a Solid Gold ToiletListen to Djuna Barnes Read from “The Antiphon,” 1971Stephanie Danler on “Sweetbitter” & Reducing Fiction to EssentialsRemembering Jenny Diski (1947–2016)My Neighbor Is Practicing “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” Help.Cancel Your Plans—the Guggenheim Has a Solid Gold ToiletR. Crumb Is Still Weird (Thank God!)Staff Picks: Castellanos Moya, John Koethe, EsopusBabies in Art Mostly Look Nothing Like Babies in LifeIn Defense of “Moist”The History of Underwear Is a Dirty HistoryBears, Abortion, Mechanical Pencils—All at the County FairTeffi: My First Visit to an Editorial OfficeThe art and life of Mark di Suvero“Purple Elegy”: A Poem for Prince, by Rowan Ricardo PhillipsRemembering Jenny Diski (1947–2016) Plimpton! and Bobby by Sadie Stein Murder! Intrigue! Book Clubs! And Other News by Sadie Stein Hemingway as Peer Reviewer, and Other News by Sadie Stein A Visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor, Part 1 by Ben Downing Announcing Our Summer Issue! by Lorin Stein Happy Birthday, Adrienne Rich by Sadie Stein 3 Stories of God: 79, 80, and 93 What We’re Loving: George Packer, Joe Carstairs, Nick Laird by The Paris Review Celebrity Publishing, and Other News by Sadie Stein Donald Baechler, Untitled, 2012 by The Paris Review Punk Love by Jason Diamond Joyce Carol Oates Gives Questionable Advice, and Other News by Sadie Stein People Will Always Be Kind by Henry Giardina The Paris Review Wins National Magazine Award by Lorin Stein The Smiths, Sort of, Do Charles Dickens, Sort Of by Sadie Stein Proust, Lost in Translation by Alexander Aciman Andrea Hirata, Jakarta, Indonesia by Matteo Pericoli Enttäuschung by Sadie Stein What We’re Loving: Illuminations and Despair by The Paris Review Small Wonders by Matt Domino
1.9719s , 10130.65625 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【Watch Vagabond Online】,Evergreen Information Network