Washington, July 23 -- Congressman Gus Bilirakis issued the following press release:
Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL-12), Laurel Lee (R-FL-15), and Valerie Foushee (D-NC-04) introduced the bipartisan Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, legislation to establish transparency standards for automated web crawlers and crack down on deceptive bots that conceal their identity while scraping online content.
As artificial intelligence continues to transform the digital landscape, automated bots now account for more than half of all global web traffic, with malicious bot activity increasing at an alarming rate. Many AI-powered web crawlers ignore existing industry standards, disguise themselves as human users, or conceal thei...