Representative Laurel Lee and Representative Valerie Foushee introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, a bipartisan piece of transparency legislation that would require AI stealth crawlers to disclose their identity and purpose.
This week the New York State Senate and Assembly passed landmark legislation (A.11292/S.9934A) protecting news media from being bombarded by deceptive “stealth crawlers” from unscrupulous tech companies.
The News/Media Alliance (NMA) has elected Debi Chirichella, President of Hearst Magazines, as its Board of Directors chair.
The New York State Senate voted to pass the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act, a bill that would require transparency for online scrapers, prohibiting “bad bots.”
Recent reporting by the Telegraph revealed that in its submission to the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, Google called news publishers “free riders.”
The News/Media Alliance, representing a collection of leading news publishers, submitted a letter to Common Crawl demanding the archive site stop its unauthorized scraping and storage of content, and establish additional protocols to prevent publisher content in its database from being used by AI companies.
The News/Media Alliance and America’s Newspapers announced a landmark collaboration that will bring together top leaders from across the news media industry for a combined event on September 27-30, 2026 in Washington, DC.
The SECURE Data Act, which would create a consistent and predictable national standard by drawing on consumer privacy language already adopted by nearly twenty state legislatures.
The New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act is a set of common-sense rules that require bots to identify themselves and their purpose, and a necessary step towards transparency and accountability for bad actors.
On March 30, 2026, the News/Media Alliance (NMA), Association of American Publishers (AAP), International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), and Authors Guild (AG) filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in Concord Music Group v. Anthropic.
