Senator Cornyn said, “For too long, the People’s Republic of China has collected Americans’ healthcare data without anywhere near sufficient scrutiny. This legislation would confront this growing national security threat and ensure private genetic information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.”
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a court filing that a former employee of Amazon's Ring doorbell camera branch spied on female customers in 2017.
As the authors write, the advancement conjures a "complex ethical conundrum" because the genomic information captured "comes from individuals mostly unaware of the technology use and oblivious to the fact that their genetic information has been inadvertently obtained."
The lawmakers are reacting to whistleblower testimony highlighted in a report by the House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.
An unsealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court filing revealed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) improperly surveilled American citizens over 278,000 times throughout 2021.