And Meta/"Facebook 1.0" can do the same with all your data that they have right now. That's an issue of what the terms of service allow and, potentially, of dev

And Meta/"Facebook 1.0" can do the same with all your data that they have right now. That's an issue of what the terms of service allow and, potentially, of developer malfeasance. In fact, do you know if there's anything in the bill that would set rules or guidelines for use of the API? Because I think it would be pretty reasonable to require that third parties using the API adhere to certain restrictions, and "don't sell the data you get that way without the user's express, clearly-informed, consent" would be a pretty important one. Furthermore, I think we need regulations limiting what social media services themselves can do with data like that as well. And it may be that it would be more ideal if we didn't open up social media services to third-party clients with mandatory APIs until we do have that. But given the choice between the status quo, and only one of those improvements? I know which one I'd choose.