Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 2521 (Introduced in Senate) — To promote competition and reduce consumer switching costs in the provision of online communications services. · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Portability

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A large communications platform provider shall, for each large communications platform it operates, maintain a set of transparent, third-party-accessible interfaces (including application programming interfaces) to initiate the secure transfer of user data to a user, or to a competing communications provider acting at the direction of a user, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. A competing communications provider that receives ported user data from a large communications platform provider shall reasonably secure any user data it acquires.

The obligations under this section shall not apply to a product or service by which a large communications platform provider does not generate any income or other compensation, directly or indirectly, from collecting, using, or sharing user data.