{"id":1208,"date":"2022-01-14T23:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/lawmakers-propose-tldr-act-for-website-tcs-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T23:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T23:58:06","slug":"lawmakers-propose-tldr-act-for-website-tcs-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/lawmakers-propose-tldr-act-for-website-tcs-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers propose TLDR Act for website T&Cs \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Almost no one bothers to read the Terms of Service agreements on websites so a group of US lawmakers on Thursday proposed a bill to require that commercial websites and mobile apps translate their legalese into summaries that can be more easily read by people and by machines.<\/p>\n

The bill, titled the Terms-of-service Labeling, Design and Readability (TLDR) Act [PDF<\/a>], was introduced by Lori Trahan (D-MA-03), Senator Bill Cassidy, (R-LA), and Senator Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), making it technically a bipartisan effort \u2013 something of a rarity at a time when the two major US political parties can’t agree on basic facts like who was lawfully elected President<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n

“For far too long, blanket terms of service agreements have forced consumers to either \u2018agree\u2019 to all of a company\u2019s conditions or lose access to a website or app entirely,” said Congresswoman Trahan, a member of the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, in a statement<\/a>. “No negotiation, no alternative, and no real choice.”<\/p>\n

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