Lawmakers Come After Companies' Terms of Service With New TLDR Bill

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The bill's authors say it's all about 'returning power to consumers.'

Now, a bipartisan trio of lawmakers wants to change that.ill on Thursday that, if passed, would mandate that major businesses create a simple and skimmable summary of their ToS pages designed to be read byinstead of entire legal teams. They’re calling it the “Terms-of-service Labeling, Design, and Readability Act”—or the TLDR Act, for short .

and details about whether that data is actually necessary to collect in the first place.

, so that “advocates and browser extension developers” could analyze differences between different companies’pulling something sneaky with its summary, the bill gives permission to the Federal Trade Commission to issue fines under its current “unfair or deceptive acts or practices,” rules. State AGstate.”

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