Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge President Joe Biden has issued an executive order authorizing the US attorney general “to prevent the large-scale transfer of Americans’ personal data to countries of concern.” According to the US Department of Justice today, those countries could include China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
The White House says it’s targeting data brokers, which it says collect more personal data than ever before — data that includes things