United States of America: Introduced Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Surveillance Act

On 23 June 2022, the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Surveillance Act was introduced in the US Senate. The Act creates restrictions on data transfers to "high-risk" foreign countries in order to prevent foreign surveillance of sensitive personal information of US citizens and protect national security. The Act would instruct government agencies to create both a list of different categories of data and a list of low-risk and high-risk countries.