Lawmakers warn data protection rules don't protect key sites, including White House and CIA
Lawmakers have raised concerns that new data protection regulations do not adequately cover sensitive locations such as the White House and CIA headquarters. The Biden administration's rules aim to prevent adversaries from purchasing commercial data on U.S. government employees, but some key sites were omitted. Legislators are urging for a broader protection zone and an expansion of the list of countries barred from acquiring such data.
- ▪The Biden administration's regulations were designed to block adversaries from buying sensitive location data.
- ▪Key locations like the White House and CIA headquarters were not included in the list of protected sites.
- ▪Lawmakers have warned that the sale of location data poses a national security threat.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration spent almost a year crafting regulations to block U.S. adversaries from buying commercial data gathered from cell phones at the federal government’s most sensitive locations. The resulting rules, however, have a few gaps. Left off the list of 736 sensitive locations were the White House, Congress and the CIA’s headquarters, among others, according to a warning issued Thursday by three congressional Democrats. “The sale of Americans’ location data by data brokers poses a serious threat to U.S. national security, particularly when data about U.S. government employees is sold to foreign governments,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Trump administration officials.
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