POLITICO: Trump’s U-turn on data privacy 

Justin Sherman, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and scholar in residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told your host that the decision to disregard the rule “seems to fly against the important, ongoing discussion about protecting data from exploitation and foreign adversaries like China.” 

“Data brokers trade deeply personal, sensitive information about us,” Caroline Kraczon, a law fellow focusing on consumer privacy at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, told your host. She added that employment information and biometric data are often sold to third parties like advertisers, financial institutions, law enforcement and intelligence agencies — or anyone willing to pay. 

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