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
This is not a privacy bill. Anyone referring to it as a privacy bill is lying. Not even the bill title claims to be about privacy. It is the “Protecting Americans’4 Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024”.