1. Short title and table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Deterring America’s Technological Adversaries Act or DATA Act . (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 4. Severability. Sec. 5. Definitions. Title I—Clarification of non-applicability for regulation and prohibition relating to sensitive personal data under International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sec. 101. Clarification. Sec. 102. Directive. Title II—Imposition of sanctions on certain transactions relating to connected software applications Sec. 201. Imposition of sanctions. Sec. 202. Sanction described. Sec. 203. Sunset. Title III—Specific determinations with respect to the imposition of sanctions Sec. 301. Determination relating to Bytedance, Ltd., TikTok, and related entities. Sec. 302. Requests by appropriate congressional committees. 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On December 2, 2022, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, stated, We … do have national security concerns about the app [TikTok]. Its parent company is controlled by the Chinese government. And it gives them the potential to leverage the app in ways that I think should concern us … One, it gives them the ability to control the recommendation algorithm which allows them to manipulate content and if they want to, to use it for influence operations which are a lot more worrisome in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party than whether or not you're steering somebody as an influencer to one product or another. They also have the ability to collect data through it on users which can be used for traditional espionage operations, for example. They also have the ability on it to get access, they have essentially access to the software to devices. So you're talking about millions of devices and that gives them the ability to engage in different kinds of malicious cyber activity through