Warren and Scanlon to introduce updated bill banning sale of health data shared with AI chatbots
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Hayden Field
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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mary Gay Scanlon are introducing an updated version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that expands protections to cover health and location data shared with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. The bill, originally introduced in 2022 to ban data brokers from selling such data, now targets a broader range of companies from selling Americans' sensitive personal information in the AI era.
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The VergeWarren and Scanlon to introduce updated bill banning sale of health data shared with AI chatbotstheverge.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledIn the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era.
The former version of the bill, first introduced in June 2022, prohibited data brokers from collecting and selling health and location data.
Four years later, it's expanded to ban other companies from selling such data.
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