A bipartisan group of lawmakers are targeting big tech with a bill designed to make large social networks and other platforms give users more control over their data.
The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act of 2021 requires platforms with more than 100 million monthly active users to make their services interoperable with that of their competitors, while providing users with capabilities to port personal data in machine-readable formats. The Federal Trade Commission would be tasked with creating a new privacy standard to protect user data, and have new authorities to continually assess how those platforms interoperate with their competitors.
"Regardless of the quality of the platform, a user whose entire network is on Facebook can't simply switch to another social media platform that none of their friends or business contacts use," Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), who introduced the bill earlier this summer along with several Democratic and Republican colleagues, said Wednesday at the Bipartisan Policy Center's discussion on competition, data portability and interoperability. "Conversely, a new social media platform will struggle to attract new users for the very same reason."
The legislation comes after a multi-year investigation led by the antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee identified anticompetitive conduct and patterns of abuse among major platforms like Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google. If passed,...
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