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The US government is cracking down on firms selling user data to these countries

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The US Government is looking to introduce new restrictions on how companies can sell 'bulk US sensitive personal data' to certain countries.

The proposed new rules from the Department of Justice (DoJ) would impose a blanket ban on the sale of this sort of data to six states the US deems ‘countries of concern’; China, Iran, Russia, The DPRK (North Korea), Cuba, and Venezuela.

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