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The bill restores consumer access and business opportunities by reversing foreign-adversary app designations, at the cost of reducing a federal tool for blocking potentially risky foreign-controlled apps and increasing security, privacy, and compliance risks.
Tech workers and app developers (and small-business owners) regain access to apps previously designated 'foreign adversary controlled', restoring their ability to distribute, operate, and earn revenue from those apps.
Individual consumers (taxpayers) regain access to online services that had been blocked or restricted, restoring consumer choice and access to those platforms.
Taxpayers face increased national security and cybersecurity risk because removing the authority weakens the federal government's ability to block apps tied to hostile foreign actors.
Taxpayers and small-business owners may be exposed to greater data-privacy and security risks if previously-designated apps can again collect or transmit sensitive information to foreign adversaries.
Small-business owners and financial institutions may face legal and compliance uncertainty because voiding past designations retroactively could complicate competition, risk mitigation, and regulatory obligations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals the federal law authorizing designation and restriction of apps tied to foreign adversaries and voids prior designations under that law.
Introduced January 20, 2025 by Ro Khanna · Last progress January 20, 2025
Repeals the federal law that allowed the government to designate and restrict apps tied to foreign adversaries and retroactively voids any prior designations made under that law. That means previous designations of apps, websites, or immersive/augmented apps under the repealed law would be treated as having no force or effect.