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Text of the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 showing a prohibition on data brokers providing personally identifiable sensitive data about Americans to foreign adversaries.
The Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA), enacted as part of Pub. L. 118-50, makes it unlawful for a data broker to “sell, license, rent, trade, transfer, release, disclose, provide access to, or otherwise make available” personally identifiable sensitive data of a United States individual to any foreign adversary country or any entity controlled by a foreign adversary (H.R.7520, sec. 2(a)). The FTC’s statutory summary and the enacted bill text explicitly define covered terms (including “data broker,” “personally identifiable sensitive data,” and “foreign adversary country”) and assign enforcement authority to the FTC. Verdict: True — PADFAA does prohibit data brokers from providing personally identifiable sensitive data about U.S. individuals to foreign adversaries, as stated in the statute and its official summaries.