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The "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications" Act, better known as the "The Tik Tok Bill", has become law. It aims to divest Tik Tok and perhaps certain other applications from control of a foreign adversary or else disconnect it from persons in the US. The impact, positives, and controversies from this law deserve much discussion. But did you also know this Act has a data portability right? That is something users of Tik Tok may want to review right away. And it is something that probably could have benefitted from a privacy expert's review. For instance, the Act gives users the right to receive data related to their account in machine-readable format. But there are questions about the scope of that data right and it failed to qualify that not only should the data be in machine-readable format, but that it should also be a format "commonly used". And privacy experts, who are quite familiar with issues of portability, likely would have noticed this potential loophole and attempted to correct it or at least strengthen it by requiring a commonly used and perhaps structured format where technically feasible. It is unclear how the Tik Tok saga will play out. But there are certain key deadlines in this Act. To be prudent, if you are a Tik Tok user, you may want to request access to your account data as soon as you can. You can read more at techtalker.substack.com

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