Sen. Tim Scott is rolling out a bill to require online app stores to display the country where an app is developed and owned before users download it.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., joins 'Hannity' to sound off on his most important issues and meeting with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.Sen. Tim Scott is rolling out legislation that would require app stores to display the country where apps are developed and owned before users download them amid worries some of the most popular apps in America werethe top Republican on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, is introducing the"Know Your App Act." Sen.
The bill would require the Treasury Department and the Department of Commerce to produce a list of adversarial governments that may have undue control over application content moderation, algorithm design or user data transfers.Under the bill, app stores would be required to provide users the ability to filter out applications from these adversarial countries and warn users about the risk of downloading one of the foreign apps on the list.
China’s national intelligence law of 2017 compels businesses registered in China, or with operations in China, to turn over information and data to Chinese intelligence agencies. U.S. officials and lawmakers have warned that the Chinese Communist Party could compel the company to turn over American users’ data or expose them to propaganda.
"I want the ‘Made in China’ label and labels for any other countries where apps like TikTok originate to be clearly marked when and where they are downloaded," Lankford said."Americans should remain free to buy items from wherever they want, but the least Big Tech can do is label where Americans’ money is going when they download in the app store."
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