Florida AG eyes making Google, Apple flag 'foreign-owned apps' for consumers before downloading

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Republican Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is sending letters to the CEOs of Apple and Google, calling for customers to be notified if an app is foreign-owned or developed.

EXCLUSIVE:is looking to require Google and Apple to notify their customers when a mobile app on their respective platforms is foreign owned or developed before it's downloaded.

"We must ensure that consumers have the information needed to make informed decisions about their data privacy and security," said Moody, above, in a statement to Fox News Digital. In her letters to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Moody states that certain foreign-owned applications, such as the, "have been flagged by national security experts as posing a risk to both privacy and user information."

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