Anonymous ID: e6d76e June 5, 2019, 2:34 p.m. No.6680065   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0097

"Leading the charge in Congress has been Senator Mark Warner of Virginia. A former venture capitalist and Virginia governor, Warner has circulated a 23-page white paper providing a policy framework on how government might protect consumers as well as curb the anti-competitive power of tech titans. Among the ideas: empowering the FTC to make rules for the digital landscape; comprehensive data protection legislation similar to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); and data transparency related to how companies use consumers’ personal information.

 

Out of this work has come at least one bipartisan piece of legislation: the Deceptive Experiences to Online Users Reduction Act, or DETOUR. Cosponsored by Warner, a Democrat, and Senator Deb Fischer, a Nebraska Republican, the bill aims to prohibit big online platforms from using deceptive images and interfaces, known as “dark patterns,” to trick consumers into handing over personal data. It’s not a theoretical fear: Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have all been accused of using deceptive wording or interface design to nudge users to surrender private data."

 

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2019/06/01/regulating-facebook-more-efficient-than-breaking/1AXTkaN02bghBrbo1QOxeP/story.html

 

https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d/3/d32c2f17-cc76-4e11-8aa9-897eb3c90d16/65A7C5D983F899DAAE5AA21F57BAD944.social-media-regulation-proposals.pdf