Social media users may soon be able to easily transfer their
personal information to competing platforms. On October 22, 2019, a
bipartisan group of U.S. senators (Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Josh
Hawley (R-MO), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)) introduced the Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by
Enabling Service Switching Act (ACCESS Act), a bill aimed at
encouraging market-based competition among today's major social
media platforms by requiring the largest of these tech companies to
allow users to move their data from one service to another.
The bill, should it become law, would be regulated and enforced
by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and would require large
communications platforms (products or services with over 100
million monthly active users in the U.S.) to:
