To require any person that maintains an internet website or that sells or distributes a mobile application that is owned, wholly or partially, by a foreign adversary country, by a foreign adversary country-owned-entity, or by a non-state-owned entity located in a foreign adversary country, or that stores and maintains information collected from such website or application in a foreign adversary country, to disclose that fact to any individual who downloads or otherwise uses such website or application.
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Latest Action · June 20, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
This bill requires websites and mobile applications that are owned by or connected to foreign adversary countries to clearly disclose that fact to U.S. users. The disclosure must inform users whether the service is owned wholly or partially by a foreign adversary country or a company in such a country, whether user data is stored there, and whether foreign governments have access to collected information. The requirement takes effect one year after the bill becomes law and applies to any person or entity owning, controlling, or distributing access to such services to U.S. residents. Violations are treated as unfair or deceptive practices and will be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, with penalties available under existing FTC laws. The bill specifically defines foreign adversary countries by reference to existing federal law and makes it illegal to knowingly provide false disclosures under this requirement.
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