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Lawmakers Propose Ban on AI Health Data Sales
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- →The bill addresses growing privacy concerns as AI tools handle sensitive health data.
- →It empowers the FTC to enforce data protection rules, marking a significant regulatory step.
- →The proposal highlights the need for a federal data privacy framework in the AI era.
Lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon, are introducing a bill to ban the sale of health and location data by AI companies to data brokers. This proposal updates the Health and Location Data Protection Act to address privacy concerns in the AI era. The bill would empower the FTC to enforce these rules and allocate $1 billion for enforcement over the next decade. This move underscores the urgency of protecting sensitive information as AI tools increasingly handle personal health data.
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