纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Biden Acts to Stop Sales of Sensitive Personal Data to China and Russia
February 29, 2024 2 min 374 words
这则报道突显了拜登政府为保护敏感个人数据采取的积极措施，尤其是针对中国和俄罗斯的数据销售。这举措显示出对于国家安全和隐私的高度关切，体现了美国在数字时代的自我保护意识。然而，此举也引发了对数据监管的更深层次思考，关键在于如何在维护国家安全的同时保持公民权利的平衡。这一问题在全球范围内都备受关注，因为数字化的浪潮催生了前所未有的隐私挑战。拜登政府的行动是一次积极的尝试，但仍需要更多的全球合作和细致的立法来构建一个可持续、公正的数字时代秩序。
President Biden issued an executive order Wednesday seeking to restrict the sale of sensitive American data to China, Russia and four more countries, a first-of-its-kind attempt to keep personally identifying information from being obtained for blackmail, scams or other harm.
The president asked the Justice Department to write rules restricting the sale of information about Americans’ locations, health and genetics to China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, as well as any entities linked to those countries. The restrictions would also cover financial information, biometric data and other types of information that could identify individuals and sensitive information related to the government.
The White House said this kind of sensitive data could be used for blackmail, “especially for those in the military or national security community,” and against dissidents, journalists and academics.
The new restrictions would be the United States’ first-ever broad prohibition on the sale of digital data to individual countries in an era when companies known as data brokers assemble huge amounts of information on people, from favorite hobbies to household income and health conditions, and then typically sell it to marketers that target them with ads.
A senior administration official said during a call with reporters that countries like China and Russia were buying that kind of data from brokers, as well as obtaining it through other corporate relationships. The officials said the countries were using their access to the data for blackmail and surveillance and could employ artificial intelligence to enhance their use of the information. The White House made the officials available on the condition of anonymity.
The executive order is also the latest escalation of a digital cold war between Washington and Beijing. The United States has cut Chinese hardware manufacturers off from crucial supplies and tried to force the sale of TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance. In August, Mr. Biden put restrictions in place to make it harder for American investors to put money into the development of sensitive technology, like artificial intelligence and quantum computing, inside China.