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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4598 

To require any person that maintains an internet website or that sells or 

distributes a mobile application that is owned, wholly or partially, by 

a foreign adversary country, by a foreign adversary country-owned-entity, 

or by a non-state-owned entity located in a foreign adversary country, 

or that stores and maintains information collected from such website 

or application in a foreign adversary country, to disclose that fact to 

any individual who downloads or otherwise uses such website or application. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 20, 2024 

Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself and Mr. GRASSLEY) introduced the following 

bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation 

A BILL 

To require any person that maintains an internet website 

or that sells or distributes a mobile application that 

is owned, wholly or partially, by a foreign adversary 

country, by a foreign adversary country-owned-entity, or 

by a non-state-owned entity located in a foreign adversary country, or that stores and maintains information 

collected from such website or application in a foreign 

adversary country, to disclose that fact to any individual 

who downloads or otherwise uses such website or application. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Internet Application 

5 Integrity and Disclosure Act’’ or the ‘‘Internet Application 

6 I.D. Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO OWN8 ERSHIP, STORAGE, AND MAINTENANCE OF IN9 FORMATION IN A FOREIGN ADVERSARY 

10 COUNTRY. 

11 (a) DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS.—Beginning 1 year 

12 after the date of enactment of this Act, any person who 

13 owns, controls, or distributes access to a covered service 

14 shall clearly and conspicuously disclose to any individual 

15 who downloads or otherwise uses the covered service the 

16 following: 

17 (1) Whether the covered service is owned, whol18 ly or partially, by a foreign adversary country, by a 

19 foreign adversary country-owned entity, or by a non20 state-owned entity located in a foreign adversary 

21 country. 

22 (2) Whether information collected from the cov23 ered service is stored and maintained in a foreign 

24 adversary country. 


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1 (3) Whether a foreign adversary country or a 

2 foreign adversary country-owned entity has access to 

3 such information. 

4 (b) FALSE INFORMATION.—It shall be unlawful for 

5 any person to knowingly disclose false information under 

6 this section. 

7 (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

8 (1) COVERED SERVICE DEFINED.—The term 

9 ‘‘covered service’’ means an internet website or a 

10 mobile application that— 

11 (A) is owned, wholly or partially, by a for12 eign adversary country, by a foreign adversary 

13 country-owned entity, or by a non-state-owned 

14 entity located in a foreign adversary country; or 

15 (B) stores and maintains information col16 lected from such website or application in a for17 eign adversary country. 

18 (2) FOREIGN ADVERSARY COUNTRY.—The term 

19 ‘‘foreign adversary country’’ means a country speci20 fied in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States 

21 Code. 

22 (3) INDIVIDUAL.—The term ‘‘individual’’ means 

23 a natural person residing in the United States. 

24 (4) NON-STATE-OWNED ENTITY LOCATED IN A

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1 state-owned entity located in a foreign adversary 

2 country’’ means an entity that is— 

3 (A) controlled (as such term is defined in 

4 section 800.208 of title 31, Code of Federal 

5 Regulations, or a successor regulation) by any 

6 governmental organization of a foreign adver7 sary country; or 

8 (B) organized under the laws of a foreign 

9 adversary country. 

10 SEC. 3. ENFORCEMENT. 

11 (a) UNFAIR OR DECEPTIVE ACTS OR PRACTICES.— 

12 A violation of this Act is a violation of a rule defining 

13 an unfair or deceptive act or practice prescribed under sec14 tion 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commission Act 

15 (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)). 

16 (b) POWERS OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMIS17 SION.— 

18 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Federal Trade Commis19 sion shall enforce this Act in the same manner, by 

20 the same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 

21 powers, and duties as though all applicable terms 

22 and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act 

23 (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incorporated into and 

24 made a part of this Act. 


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1 (2) PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES.—Any person 

2 that violates this Act shall be subject to the pen3 alties, and entitled to the privileges and immunities, 

4 provided in the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 

5 U.S.C. 41 et seq.). 

6 (3) AUTHORITY PRESERVED.—Nothing in this 

7 Act shall be construed to limit the authority of the 

8 Federal Trade Commission under any other provi9 sion of law. 

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