{"slug": "warren-and-scanlon-reintroduce-health-data-sale-ban", "title": "Warren and Scanlon Reintroduce Health Data Sale Ban", "summary": "Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon reintroduced the Health and Location Data Protection Act, which would ban data brokers from selling Americans' health and location information, including data shared with chatbots. The legislation aims to close a loophole that allows commercial exploitation of sensitive consumer data, raising compliance costs for AI applications that use such data.", "body_md": "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.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warren-and-scanlon-reintroduce-health-data-sale-ban", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/warren-and-scanlon-reintroduce-health-data-sale-ban-784ca17c", "published_at": "2026-06-29 16:07:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-29 16:55:29.288020+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Elizabeth Warren", "Mary Gay Scanlon", "Health and Location Data Protection Act", "The Verge", "Congress.gov", "GovTrack"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warren-and-scanlon-reintroduce-health-data-sale-ban", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warren-and-scanlon-reintroduce-health-data-sale-ban.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warren-and-scanlon-reintroduce-health-data-sale-ban.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warren-and-scanlon-reintroduce-health-data-sale-ban.jsonld"}}