Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee speaks throughout the hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 23, 2023 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON– Bipartisan leaders of a House committee taking a look at interstate and foreign commerce on Wednesday applauded the passage of an expense targeted at keeping Americans’ personal information out of the hands of U.S. enemies.
The existing list of nations designated as “foreign adversaries” by the United States consists of China, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Russia and the Maduro federal government in Venezuela.
“Today’s overwhelming vote sends a clear message that we will not allow our adversaries to undermine American national security and individual privacy by purchasing people’s personally identifiable sensitive information from data brokers,”Reps Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash, and Frank Pallone, D-N.J., stated in a joint declaration.
Rodgers and Pallone, the particular chair and ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, presented the expense to restrict information brokers from offering delicate information to particular nations inMarch It passed all by a vote of 414 -0.
The strong proving “should help build momentum to get this important bipartisan legislation, as well as more comprehensive privacy legislation, signed into law this Congress,” the legislators stated.
The expense prohibits companies that benefit from offering individual information, referred to as information brokers, from making information available to a foreign enemy nation or entities managed by enemies.
It likewise licenses the Federal Trade Commission to look for civil charges of more than $50,000 for each offense.
The legislation follows earlier efforts by the Biden administration to hold information brokers who offer extremely delicate details more liable by strengthening the Fair Credit ReportingAct The 1970 law guarantees fairness and promotes personal privacy of details in information gathered by customer reporting companies.
Suggested updates to the FCRA are consisted of in a September 2023 overview of propositions under factor to consider.
Rodgers and Pallone stated the expense’s passage constructs on recently’s effective effort to pass another step to need China- based ByteDance to divest from TikTok or run the risk of an across the country restriction in the U.S.
