The US Senate Judiciary Panel authorised a bill that will restrict tech giants like Amazon and Google from giving preference to their businesses on their websites. The tech giants have been under pressure because of allegations of abusing their vast market power. A long list of bills are aimed at curbing them in, but none have become law.

Lawmakers voted on a bill presented by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat and a Republican, defining companies don’t need to share data with businesses that the US government has declared national security risks. A second bill, led by US Senators Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn was on that the Open App Markets Act will block big app stores such as Apple from forcing app providers to use their payment system and prohibit them from punishing apps that offer different prices via another app store or payment system.