Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

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The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA) is a United States federal law passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on April 24, 2024. The bill grants the president power to prohibit certain software that falls under the jurisdiction of U.S. foreign adversaries from being distributed within the country, unless it is divested and no longer considered to be controlled by a foreign adversary within 270 days of the declaration. The act explicitly applies to ByteDance and its subsidiaries such as TikTok, and any other "foreign adversary controlled application" (FACA)—defined as software that allows registered users to "generate, share, and view text, images, videos, real-time communications, or similar content", has at least 1 million monthly active users, and is based in or at least 20%-owned by people connected to a country declared to be a foreign adversary—that the president deems to be a threat to national security...

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