Posted on 02/28/2024 4:05:55 PM PST by Libloather
President Joe Biden is set to issue an executive order Wednesday aimed at limiting the flow of sensitive U.S. personal data abroad - amid concerns they could be misused by countries including China.
Biden will direct the Justice Department to issue rules protecting Americans' sensitive personal information - such as genomic, biometric and geolocation data -- from 'access and exploitation by countries of concern,' said a White House fact sheet.
These countries could include China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.
'The sale of Americans' data raises significant privacy, counterintelligence, blackmail risks and other national security risks - especially for those in the military or national security community,' according to the White House.
It added that countries of concern could also seek to collect information on activists, journalists, dissidents and political figures to intimidate opponents and curb dissent.
Biden will also direct the Justice Department to work with Homeland Security in preventing foreign adversaries from accessing citizens' data through commercial means, including data available via investment and employment ties.
But these moves should not stop the flow of information needed for financial services activities or aim to decouple US economic, scientific and trade relationships with other countries, the White House said.
In a separate statement on Wednesday Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen said: 'Hostile foreign powers are weaponizing bulk data and the power of artificial intelligence to target Americans.'
Olsen, of the department's national security division, added that the announcement 'fills a key gap in our national security authorities.'
But The Software Alliance, a lobby for major data cloud companies, warned that the executive order 'may produce significant unintended consequences,' to the extent that it covers a wide range of legitimate commercial and research activity.
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Government by decree. Ugly.
Completely useless because those countries will just use 3rd party countries as conduits.
President, I mean resident retard strikes again.
Lies and more lies being produced and directed by those in government.
Everything we see, touch and purchase is from Communist China, then those in government opened the border up to millions from Communist China and the rest of the planet...
And they pretend they’re concerned about personal data?
It’s one big government con-job
For Russia - not worth their time, they have the firecrackers to deal with the West, should they not grow up.
For China - adding another 350 Million to their 1.6 BILLION database, not a problem. And it makes PERFECT SENSE to have files on, literally, EVERY AMERICAN, so as to know who to deal with when they begin their Occupation.
Could be another Bee story.
Look behind the curtains..
Clowns In Action has an exclusive contract eh.
I feel so much better about this.
It’s too late…they already have the naked pictures!
what ?
joe double the price of the garage docs ?
Oh come on! Really???
But The Software Alliance, a lobby for major data cloud companies, warned that the executive order ‘may produce significant unintended consequences,’
Where Is the Missing Biden Witness, Gal Luft?
Witness WRT Bidens’ ties to CCP-connected energy company
American Thinker ^ | 7 May, 2023 | Mark Adams
Posted on 5/7/2023, 4:41:56 AM by MtnClimber
A vital witness regarding the Biden clan’s ties to CEFC, the CCP-connected energy company, is missing.
Last February, Dr. Gal Luft, a retired Israel Defense Forces lieutenant colonel with deep intelligence ties in Washington and Beijing, was arrested as an alleged gun runner. At the time, he claimed the arrest was to stop him from revealing what he knows about the Biden crime family and FBI corruption. Now, Dr. Luft has disappeared entirely.
In the early 2000s, Luft formed a think tank called the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) that focused on energy innovations and policy. Accordingly, from 2015 to 2018, Luft organized international energy conferences. He did this in partnership, with the China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC-USA), the non-profit arm of CEFC, China’s huge energy conglomerate that was headed by one Ye Jianming. Ye reportedly has ties to Chinese military intelligence. CEFC-USA, in turn, was headed by Patrick Ho.
In September 2020, the story broke about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which first revealed that the CEFC began to court the Bidens in 2015:
According to documents in the laptop, the Biden family began their ties with CEFC in 2015. In May 2017 … the Bidens formed Sinohawk Holdings to carry out their partnership with CEFC. CEFC agreed to pay Sinohawk $5 million and transfer another $5 million to the Biden family as a gift. (Emphasis added.)
As the New York Post summarized, Hunter met with Ye, over a private dinner in early February 2017, at which the CEFC chairman made him a generous offer of $10 million a year, for a minimum of three years. The funds, suspiciously, were earmarked for “introductions alone.”
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