The Electronic Frontier Foundation and 18 other civil society groups urged New York's governor to veto Senate Bill 9934A, which would require web crawlers to identify themselves and let media companies subpoena the identities behind anonymous automated traffic. The coalition argues the measure would undermine online anonymity and digital privacy while hampering investigative journalism, academic research, and security work. They point to newsroom projects that relied on anonymous crawling to examine how large platforms rank and steer shoppers.
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