A new Senate bill would ban a 'deceptive' practice used by Facebook to get user data like phone and email contacts
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Tuesday rolled out the first in a series of bills aimed at regulating Facebook and other social media companies, even as the path to an all-encompassing federal online privacy law remains murky.
The effort is one of several aiming to rein in social media companies in the wake of data breaches, privacy scandals, and harsh scrutiny of practices that allow harmful content to be disseminated. The focus on specific issues like dark patterns comes in the absence of progress on broad-based regulation, despite seemingly bipartisan support building in the year since Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified on Capitol Hill.
"By definition, they are deceptive – who's going to be against it?" said McNamee, a regulatory activist now working with Congress and the executive branch on potential remedies. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which Warner co-chairs, began studying Facebook as part of its investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 election. In April 2018, Warner, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and the late Sen. John McCain unveiled a bill that would require social media companies to register political ads the same way traditional broadcast and print media do.
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