There's a reason it's the commerce department doing these things. We do not have strong legal frameworks around data privacy (we should but that's a different b

There's a reason it's the commerce department doing these things. We do not have strong legal frameworks around data privacy (we should but that's a different battle). We do have controls for foreign entities who recklessly abuse our system and this is that control. If you're going to abuse privacy law, vacuum up PII and behaviorals, and send them to a foreign government database used for blackmail[1] then yes, we're going to freeze your transactions and tell you off. [1] - https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/09/why-we-should-be-worried-by-chinas-overseas-key-individual-database/ https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/09/why-we-should-be-worrie...