California’s S.B. 1001 requires that bots used to influence commercial transactions or how people vote in elections be labeled. The bill was initially dangerously broad and risked censoring lawful speech; we worked with the bill’s author to fix that. eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
We thank the California legislature for hearing the concerns we wrote about here—and making sure the new bot labeling bill didn’t unintentionally sweep up vacation auto-responders or parody accounts. eff.org/document/eff-l…
We’re also happy to report that S.B. 1001 does not include the DMCA-inspired notice and takedown system from early versions of the bill, which would have predictably caused innocent human users to have their accounts labeled as bots or deleted altogether. eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
