Bill > HR8975

This bill, the Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction Act (DETOUR Act), aims to prohibit large online operators from using exploitative and deceptive practices that undermine user autonomy, decision-making, or choice. The key provisions include: 1. Prohibiting large online operators from designing or manipulating user interfaces to obscure, subvert, or impair user autonomy, or to cultivate compulsive usage or increase usage by minors without parental consent. 2. Requiring large online operators to obtain informed consent from users before conducting behavioral or psychological experiments, research, or studies, and to disclose the purpose of such activities. 3. Mandating large online operators to establish independent review boards to oversee and approve any behavioral or psychological research involving user data. 4. Allowing for the registration of professional standards bodies that can develop guidance and rules for the development and design of large online operators' technology products. 5. Empowering the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the Act's provisions as unfair or deceptive acts or practices. The bill aims to promote consumer welfare and protect users from exploitative practices by regulating the design and use of user interfaces and the conduct of behavioral research by large online platforms.