New York Senate Passes First-of-its-Kind Bill Requiring Bot Transparency for News Sites
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Summary
The New York State Senate passed the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act, a first-of-its-kind bill requiring transparency for online scrapers and prohibiting unauthorized "bad bots" from accessing news sites. The legislation mandates affirmative bot identification for crawling news websites. The News/Media Alliance, in partnership with the New York News Publishers Association, led the legislative engagement to draft and promote the bill.
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This first-of-its-kind legislation will prevent bots from anonymously accessing news sites without authorization, and instead require affirmative bot identification for attempting to crawl these sites.
The News/Media Alliance, in partnership with the New York News Publishers Association, has led the engagement with legislators in the effort to draft and promote this legislation.
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