Editorial analysis: For AI practitioners, tighter legal limits on the sale of health and location data would shrink one class of commercial training sources and raise compliance overhead for apps that ingest consumer-generated health signals. Reporting by The Verge says Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are preparing a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that would bar selling Americans' health and location information to data brokers, including data disclosed to chatbots. According to a Warren press release, the legislation would ban brokers from selling Americans' location and health data. Congress.gov shows an earlier Senate version, S.5462, was introduced on December 10, 2024, and GovTrack notes that that iteration died in the prior Congress.
Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data