A group of US Democrats have introduced a new bill in the hope that it will ban the use of bots to scalp high-value items including games consoles.
The ‘Stopping Grinch Bots Act’ is being introduced by Representative Paul Tonko, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Ben Ray Luján, and is designed to crack down on bot technology.
Bots work by automatically notifying users when high value items come in stock at retailers, before circumventing any wait
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