White House pledges to crack down on ‘abusive’ data-harvesting companies

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The Biden administration is highlighting its efforts to combat abuses in the consumer-data industry, with regulators such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau planning on issuing new rules and pledging aggressive oversight of so-called data brokers that compile and sell data on millions of Americans.

“President Biden has called for stronger privacy protections to limit the personal data that companies collect on Americans,” Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology policy, said in…

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