Senate committee pauses on bill to require social media companies to report fentanyl activity

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Supporters of the bill say it’s needed to help stop the illegal sale of fentanyl online.

“It’s been at least 29 states where we’ve been able to track a social media drug dealer who sold a pill, a fake pill, that’s killed their customer,” said Shabbir Imber Safdar, Executive Director for the Partnership for Safe Medicines . “It’s a really big problem and there’s a lot more we and the platforms can be doing about it.

“The issue here is the lack of protections provided around that transfer of information,’ said Cody Venzke, Senior Policy Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union . “There’s no notice provided to the user. Data has to be preserved indefinitely.”

 

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