Duty LXD-6413
Operates an app store, in the United States
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Actsince 5 lines
Pub. L. 118-50, div. H, 138 Stat. 955 (15 U.S.C. 9901 note) · Read the law's page
- It reaches you if you provide a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) or internet hosting services through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States distribute, maintain, or update an application operated by ByteDance Ltd., TikTok, or a covered company the President has determined to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States, or if you own or control such an application (section 2(a) and (b)).
- Do not distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application within the land or maritime borders of the United States, either by providing services through a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) or by providing internet hosting services, once the prohibition applies to that application (section 2(a)(1)).
- If you own or control a foreign adversary controlled application, provide a user within the land or maritime borders of the United States who asks, before the prohibition applies, all the available data related to the user's account, including posts, photos, and videos and all other account information, in a machine readable format (section 2(b)).
- The prohibition does not apply to an application for which a qualified divestiture is executed before the date on which the prohibition would begin to apply to it, and it ceases to apply to an application for which a qualified divestiture is executed after that date (section 2(c)(1)).
- Services necessary for you to attain compliance with subsections (a) and (b) are outside both subsections (section 2(c)(2)).
H.R. 3149, App Store Accountability Act (federal)proposed4 lines
H.R. 3149, 119th Congress · Read the law's page
- Applies to a covered app store provider, one with 5,000,000 or more United States users, and to app developers distributing through such stores.
- As a covered app store provider, verify a user's age category.
- For a minor, obtain verifiable parental consent before the minor may download or purchase an app or make an in-app purchase.
- As an app developer, rely on the app store's age-category signal and honor its parental-consent status.
S. 1586, App Store Accountability Act (federal)proposed4 lines
S. 1586, 119th Congress · Read the law's page
- Applies to a covered app store provider, one with 5,000,000 or more United States users, and to app developers distributing through such stores.
- As a covered app store provider, verify a user's age category.
- For a minor, obtain verifiable parental consent before the minor may download or purchase an app or make an in-app purchase.
- As an app developer, rely on the app store's age-category signal and honor its parental-consent status.