United States of America: Reintroduced Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act, including portability and interoperability measures

On 25 May 2022, the bipartisan Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act was reintroduced in the US Senate and House of Representatives. The bill intends to stimulate market-based competition against large online communications platforms (with more than 100 millions active users in the United States) by requesting them to make user data portable and their services interoperable with other platforms. Furthermore, the act aims to allow users to delegate the supervision of their privacy and account settings and online interactions to trusted third-party services.