Washington, July 23 -- Congresswoman Valerie Foushee issued the following press release:
Today, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (D-NC-04), Congresswoman Laurel Lee (R-FL-15), and Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL-09) 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 con...