Prohibits email providers from flagging elected political emails as spam without user direction. Requires quarterly transparency reports on flagged political emails. Mandates data disclosure to campaigns upon request. Obliges providers to offer email deliverability best practices. Enforces via FTC. Defines key terms.
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This is a binding federal statute with mandatory obligations, explicit enforcement mechanisms through the FTC, and penalties for non-compliance.
The document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains, with limited focus on AI system transparency (7.4) and governance failure (6.5). The document primarily addresses email filtering algorithms in a narrow political context rather than comprehensive AI risk management.
The document primarily governs the Information sector, specifically email service providers that use filtering algorithms. It regulates how these providers handle political campaign emails through algorithmic filtering systems.
The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on the use of filtering algorithms in production email systems and requiring ongoing transparency reporting and monitoring of their performance.
The document explicitly mentions filtering algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence techniques in the context of email filtering. It does not reference AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, or compute thresholds.
United States Congress, specifically Representatives Mrs. Lesko, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Steube, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Issa, and Ms. Stefanik
The document is a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by the named representatives and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The FTC is explicitly designated as the enforcement body with full authority to enforce violations as unfair or deceptive acts or practices.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for regulatory monitoring; political campaigns and the general public for transparency monitoring through quarterly reports
The FTC has monitoring authority through its enforcement role. Additionally, the Act mandates public transparency reports and provides political campaigns with data access rights, enabling stakeholder monitoring.
Operators of email services, specifically those employing more than 500 employees and averaging $5 billion or more in annual gross receipts over the previous 12-month period
The Act explicitly targets operators of email services that use filtering algorithms, with specific exclusions for smaller operators based on employee count and revenue thresholds.
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