Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data
The Verge
U.S. lawmakers are introducing a bill to prevent AI companies and data brokers from selling Americans' sensitive health and location information.Summary
Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon are updating the Health and Location Data Protection Act to address concerns regarding AI systems. The proposed legislation aims to prohibit companies from selling personal health and location data to data brokers, explicitly covering information shared with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. This effort follows a trend of AI labs encouraging users to upload sensitive medical records into their systems, despite a lack of comprehensive federal privacy regulations. If passed, the bill would empower the Federal Trade Commission to enforce these protections, backed by $1 billion in funding over ten years, while allowing for legal action against violators.
(Source：The Verge)