SEC. 2. STORAGE AND ACCESS BY FOREIGN ADVERSARY OF 
COVERED DATA. 
(a) REGULATIONS.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall 
promulgate, under section 553 of title 5, United States 
Code, regulations in accordance with this section that pro-
hibit a person, with respect to the covered data of any 
covered platform in the United States, from knowingly— 
(1) storing the covered data of the covered plat-
form in a physical data center in a foreign adver-
sary; or 
(2) permitting a governmental official of a for-
eign adversary to access the covered data. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT BY COMMISSION.— 
(1) UNFAIR
OR
DECEPTIVE
ACTS
OR
PRAC-
TICES.—A violation of this section or a regulation 
promulgated under this section shall be treated as a 
violation of a regulation under section 18(a)(1)(B) 
of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 
57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair or deceptive acts or 
practices. 
(2) POWERS
OF
COMMISSION.—The Commis-
sion shall enforce this section and the regulations 
promulgated under this section in the same manner, 
by the same means, and with the same jurisdiction, 
powers, and duties as though all applicable terms 
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and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act 
(15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.) were incorporated into and 
made a part of this section. Any person who violates 
this section or a regulation promulgated under this 
section shall be subject to the penalties and entitled 
to the privileges and immunities provided in the 
Federal Trade Commission Act. 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO STATE LAWS.— 
(1) PREEMPTION.—Nothing in this Act, or a 
regulation promulgated under this Act, shall be con-
strued to preempt, displace, or supplant any State 
law, except to the extent that a provision of State 
law conflicts with a provision of this Act, or a regu-
lation promulgated under this Act, and then only to 
the extent of the conflict. 
(2) GREATER
PROTECTION
UNDER
STATE 
LAW.—For purposes of this subsection, a provision 
of State law does not conflict with a provision of this 
Act, or a regulation promulgated under this Act, if 
such provision of State law provides greater privacy 
protection or security of covered data than the pri-
vacy protection or security provided by such provi-
sion of this Act or such regulation. 
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(d) SAVINGS CLAUSE.—Nothing in this section may 
be construed to limit the authority of the Commission 
under any other provision of law. 
(e) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commis-
sion, in consultation with the Attorney General, shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on the implementation and en-
forcement of this section. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 
means the Federal Trade Commission. 
(2) COVERED DATA.—The term ‘‘covered data’’ 
means information that identifies or is linked or rea-
sonably linkable, alone or in combination with other 
information, to an individual who is a national of the 
United States or a device that identifies or is linked 
or reasonably linkable to such an individual, and 
may include derived data and unique persistent iden-
tifiers. 
(3) COVERED PLATFORM.—The term ‘‘covered 
platform’’ means any website, desktop application, 
or mobile application that is consumer-facing, sells 
digital advertising space, and has more than 
100,000,000 monthly active users for a majority of 
months during the preceding 12 months. 
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(4) FOREIGN ADVERSARY.—The term ‘‘foreign 
adversary’’— 
(A) has the meaning given that term in 
section 8(c)(2) of the Secure and Trusted Com-
munications Networks Act of 2019 (47 U.S.C. 
1607(c)(2)); and 
(B) includes— 
(i) the People’s Republic of China, in-
cluding the Hong Kong Special Adminis-
trative Region (China); 
(ii) the Republic of Cuba (Cuba); 
(iii) the Islamic Republic of Iran 
(Iran); 
(iv) the Democratic People’s Republic 
of Korea (North Korea); 
(v) the Russian Federation (Russia); 
and 
(vi) 
Venezuelan 
politician 
Nicolas 
Maduro (Maduro Regime). 
(5) NATIONAL OF THE UNITED STATES.—The 
term ‘‘national of the United States’’ has the mean-
ing given that term in section 101(a)(22) of the Im-
migration 
and 
Nationality 
Act 
(8 
U.S.C. 
1101(a)(22)). 
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(6) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each 
State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 
each commonwealth, territory or possession of the 
United States, and each federally recognized Indian 
Tribe. 
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