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The '''Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act'''<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521</ref> passed the House of Representatives on March 13, 2024 | The '''Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act'''<ref>https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521</ref> passed the House of Representatives on March 13, 2024. The bill prohibits app stores and any internet hosting service (''including VPNs'') from allowing TikTok to be downloaded or updated. The President may extend this ban to any app that is at least 20% owned by a company based in China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran, and is "a significant threat to the national security of the United States". | ||
==Definitions== | ==Definitions== | ||
These definitions are arranged so that a definition that relies on another definition does not appear before it, and will be in bold when used in the remainder of this analysis. | These definitions are arranged so that a definition that relies on another definition does not appear before it, and will be in bold when used in the remainder of this analysis. | ||
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* for TikTok, | * for TikTok, 180 days after the act is passed (2(a)(2)(A)) | ||
* for any other '''foreign adversary controlled application''', | * for any other '''foreign adversary controlled application''', 180 days after the determination is made (2(a)(2)(B)). | ||
==Portability== | ==Portability== | ||
A banned app must provide to any user of it within the United States on request all the available data related to their account, including all content posted, in a machine readable format, before the ban takes effect (2(b)). | A banned app must provide to any user of it within the United States on request all the available data related to their account, including all content posted, in a machine readable format, before the ban takes effect (2(b)). |