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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 5313 (Introduced in House) — To prohibit unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the app marketplace, and for other purposes. · Sec. 6

Sec. 6. Definitions

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In this Act: The term app means a software application or electronic service that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose consumer computing device. The term app store means a publicly available website, software application, or other electronic service that may distribute apps from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose consumer computing device. The term Commission means the Federal Trade Commission.
The term covered company means any person who owns or controls— an app store for which the number of users in the United States exceeds 100,000,000; and the operating system on which such app store operates. The term developer means a person who owns or controls an app or an app store. The term in-app payment system means an application, service, or user interface to manage billing or process a payment from a user of an app. The term nonpublic business information means nonpublic data that is— derived from a developer or an app or app store owned or controlled by a developer, including an interaction between a user and the app or app store of the developer; and collected by a covered company in the course of operating an app store or providing an operating system.
The term operating system includes an operating system configuration.
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