Congress wants to ban AI companies from selling your health data

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon are planning to introduce a revised version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act, which aims to ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers. The proposed legislation would prohibit companies, including those operating AI chatbots like ChatGPT, from selling sensitive user data. The revised bill expands on a previous version introduced in 2022, which only targeted data brokers, to now include other companies that collect and sell health and location data. The lawmakers' goal is to better protect users' personal information in the era of artificial intelligence.

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