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ACCESS Act of 2022

Introduced: May 25, 2022 Introduced by: Warner, Mark R. Democratic · Virginia See on congress.gov
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May 25, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 25, 2022
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching Act of 2022 or the ACCESS Act of 2022

This bill requires large communications platform providers with more than 100 million monthly users (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) to establish interfaces (e.g., application programming interfaces [APIs]) that make user data portable and services interoperable. These interfaces must be made available for users and competitor platforms to access and transfer such user data.

Competitors accessing user data through an interface must keep the data reasonably secure and may not use it for commercial purposes. Users also may designate third parties that meet certain requirements, including registering with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to manage their user data. A communications platform may place reasonable limits on competitors' access to its interoperability interface.

The bill further requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop model technical standards for implementing platform interoperability.

What's happening now May 25, 2022

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 2 Republican 2