Bill > S3330

This bill, the Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction Act (DETOUR Act), aims to prohibit large online operators (defined as those with over 100 million authenticated users) from engaging in exploitative and deceptive practices that undermine user autonomy, decision-making, and choice. It requires these operators to obtain informed consent for any behavioral or psychological experiments or research involving their users, establish independent review boards to oversee such research, and disclose the general purpose of any such experiments on a routine basis. The bill also allows for the creation of a registered professional standards body that can develop guidance on acceptable technology design and research practices to provide a "safe harbor" from enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission, which is tasked with enforcing the provisions of this Act.