Michigan law aims to make online shopping safer, more transparent
Online marketplaces like Amazon will now need to disclose contact information of sellers on their site under a two-bill package signed into law earlier this month, which also would give prosecutors more power to go after online organized crime rings.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gave a final OK to the bills earlier this month, which are now known as Public Act 152 and Public Act 153. The former of the two, Whitmer noted, was her 900th bipartisan bill to be signed during her administration and she praised it as protecting “families and consumer safety by requiring transparency and cracking down on criminals who sell counterfeit or stolen products online.”
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Rep. Mark Tisdel (R-Rochester Hills), sponsor of now PA 153, said in a statement that the bills would serve to “protect shoppers from the entanglements of the