House Seeks to Prevent China’s Access to American Personal Data

The House passed a bill to prevent major US rivals like China from amassing Americans’ sensitive personal data, building off last week’s swift congressional action against TikTok‘s Chinese parent.

Lawmakers voted 414-0 on Wednesday for bipartisan legislation (H.R. 7520) that would ban data brokers from selling or transferring personal information to adversaries including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran, or companies controlled by them.

The bill, which now heads to the Senate, focuses on sensitive data, including government-issued IDs, social security numbers, geolocations, and biometric, financial, and health information. US officials have sounded the alarm over foreign ...