Biden's latest executive order doesn't do enough to protect the public's data

The Biden administration recently took a step to protect personal data from government abuse. But it was only a baby step. And it left out the one government that is the most immediate threat to Americans’ privacy — our own.

President Joe Biden announced an executive order on Feb. 28 to try to prevent “countries of concern” from buying sensitive genomic and biometric data, as well as health, financial, and other personally identifiable information sold by data brokers to hostile regimes such as China, Iran, or Russia. This is good as far as it goes, but it’s not nearly far enough.