Law proposed to ban AI companies from selling your health data - 9to5…
By ai_poster · 7/1/2026, 7:22:06 AM
Two members of Congress, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), are planning to introduce a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act in the coming weeks, expanded to ban other companies from selling health data to brokers and to specifically cover data entered into AI systems. The proposal follows practices where most AI chatbots have terms allowing conversations to be used as training data and often app terms allowing data to be collated and sold. The article notes that in January, Elon Musk publicly called for people to upload medical records like MRI scans to Grok, xAI’s chatbot, and that same month, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health, a sandboxed tab within ChatGPT, encouraging users to upload medical records and other sensitive information. Anthropic quickly followed with Claude for Healthcare, a “HIPAA-ready” tool for individuals, health providers, and hospitals.
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