Biden wants tech companies to limit their collection of sensitive data
Biden’s calls for stricter data collection standards weren’t just limited to youth users. In general, Biden called on lawmakers to make it more difficult for companies to collect sensitive data like health information and geolocation data
“It’s time,” Biden said, for lawmakers to, “impose stricter limits on the personal data these companies collect on all of us.”
That demand echoed remarks Biden make in January Wall Street Journal op-ed, where he railed against tech platforms for the “huge amounts of data” they harvest. In the op-ed, Biden went a step further, explicitly calling for a federal data privacy law that puts clear limits on how companies can collect personal info likebiometrics and health data.
“Much of that data shouldn’t be collected in the first place,” he wrote.
Biden notably stopped short of calling for that same federal privacy law during his State of the Union address. While recently proposed federal privacy laws typically receive bipartisan support among voters, they’ve failed to pick up any steam in Congress.
