United States of America: Introduced Adversarial Platform Prevention (APP) Act including data protection requirements

On 26 January 2021, the Adversarial Platform Prevention (APP) Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The Act introduces data protection standards for certain foreign software providers in order to operate in the United States. The Act would apply to software providers whose principal operations are in China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba or other countries designated as "sponsor of terrorism" or who store U.S. consumer data in said nations. Such foreign software would be required to have a warning label and provide yearly disclosure on U.S. data collection practices to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. In addition, such providers would be prohibited from selling data of U.S. persons and would not be provided immunity from provider liability (Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act).