Amendment ID: S3164-27

Amendment 27

Preventing Dark Patterns

Mr. Brownsberger, Ms. Jehlen, Ms. Edwards, Ms. Kennedy, Messrs. Keenan, Tarr and Montigny and Ms. Lovely move that the proposed new draft be amended  in section 1 by striking out, in lines 149 to 152, "(3) A covered operator shall not: (i) provide a user with an option to change more than 1 such default setting at once; or (ii) request or prompt a user to change any such default settings, unless the change is necessary for the user to access a service or feature they have expressly and unambiguously requested."; and

in said section 1, in proposed section 2 of chapter 93M of the General Laws, by inserting, after subsection (c), the following subsection:-

"(d) A covered operator shall not: (i) provide a user with an option to change more than 1 default setting under subsections (a) or (b) at once; or (ii) request or prompt a user to change any default settings under subsections (a) or (b), unless the change is necessary for the user to access a service or feature they have expressly and unambiguously requested."