Congress wants to ban AI companies from selling your health data
The short version
- In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act…
- The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022 , prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data.
- Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling such data to brokers, and to specifically cover … Read the full story at The Verge.
The story
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude.
In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data. Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling such data to brokers, and to specifically cover …
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