ACCESS Act of 2025 aims to promote competition and reduce switching costs in online communications services.
The ACCESS Act of 2025 mandates large communications platform providers to maintain transparent, third-party-accessible interfaces for secure user data transfer. It requires these providers to offer functionally equivalent interfaces to competing communications services. The Act prohibits large communications platform providers from collecting, using, or sharing user data from competing services except for safeguarding privacy and maintaining interoperability. It also mandates the establishment of rules and procedures for custodial third-party agents to manage user interactions and content.
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