Today’s Acronym is PADFAA. And It Has Nothing To Do With Liveness Detection or Airplanes.

TAA.

Too many acronyms.

And this one, PADFAA, sounds like a mashup of presentation attack detection and the Federal Aviation Administration.

It isn’t.

PADFAA stands for the “Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024.”

So while it doesn’t involve PAD or the FAA, it does involve PII (personally identifiable information) and the FTC (Federal Trade Commission).

“The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).

“PADFAA prohibits data brokers from selling, releasing, disclosing, or providing access to personally identifiable sensitive data about Americans to any foreign adversary, which include North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran, or any entity controlled by those countries. The law defines personally identifiable sensitive data to include health, financial, genetic, biometric, geolocation, and sexual behavior information as well as account or device log-in credentials and government-issued identifiers such as Social Security, passport, or driver’s license numbers.”

Although frankly it’s not a good idea to sell PII to our friends either, but that’s another topic.