Us congressman proposes US sensitive information export control legislation dra

On April 15, 2021, Ron Wyden, a Republican member of the US Senate, announced the draft legislation of protecting Americans' data from foreign Surveillance Act, which is based on the foreign investment risk assessment Modernization Act of 2018, It aims to regulate the export of sensitive personal information of Americans to potential hostile countries.

The bill proposes a number of measures led by the Department of Commerce, including the establishment of a set of inter departmental identification procedures to identify whether personal data exported by third parties will harm the national security of the United States; Compile the national list of data export security and impose licensing requirements on the batch export of data; Ensure that the export rules do not apply to the press or related speech protected by the constitution; The export control punishment shall be applied to the senior managers involved in the illegal export of personal data; The Ministry of commerce is required to publish the quarterly report of personal data export.