US senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks
It would bar companies from choosing groups of people for experiments unless the companies get informed consentWASHINGTON: Two US senators introduced a bill on Tuesday to ban online social media companies like Facebook and Twitter from tricking consumers into giving up their personal data. Restrictions on how social media companies collect information about users could hurt their ability to sell advertisements, a key source of profit. Warner said in an interview on CNBC that the legislation could be included in a federal privacy bill that lawmakers in the Senate Commerce Committee are drafting. Congress has been expected to take up privacy legislation after California passed a strict privacy law that goes into effect next year. Under the terms of the bill, social media companies would create a professional standards body to create best practices to deal with the issue.
Source: The Express Tribune April 10, 2019 12:11 UTC
