Lexology February 29, 2024
President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order on Feb. 28, 2024, designed to protect Americans’ data security by, among other things, directing the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Defense and Veterans Affairs to help ensure federal grants, contracts and awards are not used by “countries of concern” to facilitate access to Americans’ health data. It authorizes the U.S. Attorney General to prevent the large-scale transfer of Americans’ personal data to countries of concern and provide safeguards around other activities that could give those countries access to Americans’ sensitive data.
The Executive Order comes on heels of congressional action designed to prohibit government contracts with specific companies because of congressional unease over whether these companies’ have relationships with the...
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