Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data
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A federal move to ban sale of health and location data—including what users tell AI chatbots—would harden the wall around sensitive signals. If your product touches health-adjacent data, assume broker-based enrichment and resale are on borrowed time and pivot toward first-party, consented models now.
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