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ChampionedData privacy and national security

Committed, through the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Surveillance Act, to set guardrails blocking bulk exports of Americans' private, sensitive data to high-risk foreign nations.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 70%

Verification confirms the CHAMPIONED rating. (1) The Record (June 14, 2023) documents Wyden co-introducing the Protecting Americans' Data from Foreign Surveillance Act of 2023 with a bipartisan coalition (Lummis, Whitehouse, Rubio, Hagerty) to block bulk data exports to China/Russia; the cited Wyden quote appears verbatim. (2) Wyden's official press release (Feb 28, 2024) responds to Biden's data-export executive order while promoting his own bill; the cited quote "President Biden deserves praise for taking the first step in fighting back" appears verbatim, and Wyden simultaneously criticized the EO as too narrow — supporting the read that guardrails were substantially (not fully) achieved and that Wyden kept driving the cause. (3) GovTrack S.1974 confirms the statute was introduced June 14, 2023, sat in the first stage (referred to committee), and never advanced; the "6% chance of getting past committee / 3% chance of being enacted" prognosis is genuine. The evidence shows sustained leadership beyond a single vote — lead authorship, bipartisan reintroduction, and public pressure tied to the EO — which fits CHAMPIONED rather than FULL (statute never enacted) or a bare PARTIAL. The outcome does not overstate the evidence: the rationale openly acknowledges the bill failed and the EO is narrower than his statute, and confidence stays moderate to reflect the defensible PARTIAL alternative.

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