Lawmakers seek AI-era ban on health data sales
Warren and Scanlon plan an updated bill covering health and location data shared with AI chatbots.
Why it matters
The bill reflects growing concern that AI services could become channels for sensitive personal data to enter broker markets. If advanced, it would extend privacy restrictions around AI chatbots beyond traditional data-broker regulation.
The key points
- 1.Warren and Scanlon plan to debut the updated bill in the coming weeks.
- 2.The proposal covers health and location data shared with AI chatbots.
- 3.The 2022 version targeted data brokers' collection and sale of such data.
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon plan to introduce a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act in the coming weeks. The proposal would ban companies from selling Americans' health and location information to data brokers, including information disclosed to AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Claude. The earlier version, first introduced in June 2022, focused on barring data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data.
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