United States · Bill · S
S. 47 (117th)
APP Act
Introduced
26 January 2021
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Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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7 April 2025
Summary
Adversarial Platform Prevention Act of 2021 or the APP Act This bill establishes requirements for owners and operators of certain software (e.g., TikTok) from specified countries who make their software available to consumers in the United States. Specifically, before making such software available for download, the software must provide users with a warning that includes the name of the owner and the owner's country of principal operation. Further, owners of such software must annually disclose to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice certain information about the consumer data of U.S. users, including any data protection measures in place and any internal content moderation practices. Such owners may not collect or store data from U.S. users if they comply with any requests from specified foreign governments to disclose consumer data about U.S. users or any requests from such governments to censor U.S. users. The protections from liability for third-party publishers of content are not applicable to owners of foreign software who are subject to the requirements of this bill. Such software owners in violation of these requirements are subject to civil penalties enforced by the Federal Trade Commission and may be subject to criminal penalties for intentional violations.
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Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 26 January 2021
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 26 January 2021
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 26 January 2021
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/47
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/47