President Biden Blocks Mass Transfer of Personal Data to High-Risk Nations

The report summarizes a new U.S. Executive Order aimed at restricting the mass transfer of Americans' sensitive data to countries of concern (including China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela), citing risks of surveillance, blackmail, and national-security harms. It highlights research that data brokers can provide individually identified sensitive records at extremely low cost, warns that hostile nations and commercial data brokers can misuse that data, and notes actions such as adding companies like Sandvine to the Entity List over misuse of network equipment to deliver spyware and censor or surveil users.