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The ACCESS Act is vital because Facebook&other tech giants profit from your data&use it to block competition. Your data belongs to you. This measure from @MarkWarner, @HawleyMO&I would empower people to stand up to Big Tech&move their data to platforms that respect their rights. https://t.co/Q6TXfsB848
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) October 22, 2019
A lot to digest here, but my quick reaction is that requiring NIST to develop a safe harbor of baseline interoperability standards for social networking is a bad idea. This presumes that the social networks we have now have zeroed in on the right ideas to standardize. https://t.co/niyZvW9N4V pic.twitter.com/5gCtUeijk9
— ?Boo-lake “DCMA § 230” Reid ? (@blakereid) October 22, 2019
Congress could require Facebook to build more open APIs under new bill: Photo by Erin Schaff for The Verge Over the past few months, lawmakers have taken aim at Big Tech, calling out companies like Facebook for anti-competitive behavior and sometimes… https://t.co/8RJWz973jv pic.twitter.com/uFCn6ZiOH7
— Zion Tech Group (@ZionTechGroup2) October 22, 2019
Three prominent tech critics in the Senate will introduce new legislation Tuesday requiring social media giants to give consumers ways to move their personal data to another platform at any time. https://t.co/DHL5FBzXZE
— Axios (@axios) October 22, 2019
The ACCESS Act has three main components that would apply to the largest tech platforms:
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 22, 2019
1. Portability
2. Interoperability
3. Delegatability
Here’s what that means in plain English:
Back in 2001, the FCC recognized that interoperability was key to competition and required then-dominant AOL to make its instant messaging service compatible with its competitors. https://t.co/vYMj5ShW63
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 22, 2019
This is going to break on the rocks of what "your data" is. What makes social network sites so prone to monopoly is that they store information about relationships between people. The idea that you can carve this up and give each person 'their' piece is easy until you attempt it. https://t.co/aHd2b9poC8
— Pinboard (@Pinboard) October 22, 2019
First, consumers ought to have the ability to switch social media platforms and other online services without having to start from scratch. This idea of data portability would allow you to take all your data ~ including your cat videos ~ and move it to a different service.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 22, 2019
This bill seems like a gamechanger. https://t.co/XLHMkXq3vP
— Meredith Broussard (@merbroussard) October 22, 2019
feeling it mildly ironic that @MarkWarner uploaded a PDF of the ACCESS Act to Scribd and it can't be downloaded without logging in https://t.co/dARBSySiBl
— Hannah Bloch-Wehba (@HBWHBWHBW) October 22, 2019
"@MarkWarner's announcement of the new bill included a statement from @MChrisRiley, director of public policy at @mozilla, who said the legislation could help prevent a future where users only have a choice between 'silos of technology' on the internet." https://t.co/77dUT1XdVS
— Ferras Vinh (@ferrasvinh) October 22, 2019
Data portability can be a good way to enhance competition, while preserving or even increasing the benefits of networks. https://t.co/yb1ZLHKzzg
— Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) October 22, 2019
This is something I’ve been working on with @HawleyMO and @SenBlumenthal for a while. Today I’m excited to introduce legislation that will put consumers back in the driver’s seat when it comes to digital markets that are dominated by big tech platforms. https://t.co/14ko5k2Ccz
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 22, 2019
Second, for data portability to really make a difference, we need to break down the anti-competitive barriers that companies put up to limit their competitors from interacting with their platforms.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 22, 2019
This is the idea behind interoperability, the open exchange of information.
On a first read this law would be a substantial improvement over the status quo. Data portability is important, and even more, "delegability" as a way of squaring the need for strong privacy options with the inevitable confusion of trying to set and exercise them. https://t.co/vztMH7XVuI
— Jonathan Zittrain (@zittrain) October 22, 2019
Third, we need to preserve delegatability — the idea that consumers should be able to allow a third-party service to manage their privacy settings across multiple platforms.
— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) October 22, 2019
This bill is a big deal. Blumenthal is on the left, Warner is in the center, and Hawley is on the right.
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) October 22, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg brings people together. https://t.co/stIlRp8Z4z
Data portability is appealing but how would this work? Do you really want to transfer your social graph from Facebook or search history from Google to some startup?
— Jeff Roberts (@jeffjohnroberts) October 22, 2019
Article cites precedent of phone number portability but social media data is differenthttps://t.co/IXatRSdg3S
Josh Hawley introduces another dumb bill that will:
— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) October 22, 2019
*never become law
*if it did, would be tied up in court for years and probably not survivehttps://t.co/BwVDtfxk6j
Senate bill aims to make user data 'portable' across social networks https://t.co/2ov42NixoV pic.twitter.com/GAI3KlE7OT
— Ace Computer (@Acecomputer5) October 22, 2019