Foreign financing, ownership, data access, communications licenses, and national-security review concerns around a major U.S. media company.
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“The FCC should update its public list of communications companies with covered foreign ownership or control ties at least once every year.”
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“The Attorney General should investigate possible violations of the covered-app restrictions and user-data export rules, seek civil fines, and go to federal court for penalties or court orders, but only for those specific app and data-export rules.”
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“Commerce should be able to investigate covered technology deals, review one deal or a whole category of similar deals, require changes, block deals, and list restricted foreign people or companies.”
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“Challenges to these app restrictions should have to go to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals within 165 days for the law itself or 90 days for specific government decisions, and if one part is struck down, the rest should stay in effect if it can still operate.”
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“Before a covered app loses U.S. access, U.S. users who ask for it should be able to get their posts, photos, videos, and account information, and companies should be allowed to keep limited services running long enough to provide that data and wind the app down.”
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“Companies should count as data brokers when they get something of value for sharing data about U.S. residents that they did not collect directly, while services that only send data at a user’s request, publish news or public information, or handle data for a qualifying customer may be treated differently.”
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“FCC public listing should look at ties to covered foreign governments, companies formed under covered-country laws, and those companies' subsidiaries, using another federal law to decide which countries are covered.”
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“The FCC should collect ownership information from more FCC-regulated communications companies to find reportable covered foreign ownership or voting interests, and those information requests should skip the normal Paperwork Reduction Act review process.”
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“TikTok, ByteDance, and certain related apps should be covered automatically, and the President should be able to add other large social-media-style apps with more than 1 million monthly users when they are controlled by a foreign adversary and pose a major national security threat.”
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“U.S. app stores and internet hosting companies should have to stop offering, updating, or keeping covered foreign-adversary-controlled apps available for people in the United States.”
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“Data brokers should not be allowed to sell, share, disclose, or provide access to covered sensitive data about people living in the United States to foreign adversary countries or entities those countries control.”
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“The President should be able to require a sale or control changes when a foreign adversary controls a large risky technology holding, while some deals already cleared through CFIUS would be protected from that forced-sale power.”
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“Technology security reviews should be able to cover apps, software, cloud services, internet platforms, telecom gear, connected devices, and similar technologies when foreign adversary ties create listed security risks.”
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“Key data terms should be defined, and the Federal Trade Commission should enforce the ban on data brokers giving sensitive U.S. data to foreign adversaries.”
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“Individual people should not be punished just for using a covered foreign-adversary-controlled app.”
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“A covered app should be allowed to stay in U.S. app stores and hosting services, or return later, if an approved sale ends foreign-adversary control and cuts off ongoing ties such as shared recommendation algorithms and data-sharing with the former foreign-controlled owner.”
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“Foreign-adversary transfer limits should cover data such as government ID numbers, health and financial information, biometrics, genetic data, precise location, private messages, login credentials, children’s information, race, ethnicity, religion, online activity across services, military status, and other data used to identify those sensitive details.”
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“The technology security program should operate alongside existing national security tools like CFIUS and emergency economic powers, and some existing technology supply-chain security rules should carry over into the new statutory system.”
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“Commerce should be able to take many technology security actions without normal notice, comment, and review steps, and records tied to covered technology reviews generally should not have to be released through public records requests.”
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“People or companies that violate, evade, or lie about technology security orders should face civil fines, criminal punishment for willful violations, property seizure, and investigative tools such as searches, subpoenas, and record access.”
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