A top California lawmaker wants to bring Utah’s new data rules for social media consumers to the biggest state in the US.
Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D) says he plans to introduce legislation that would require social media platforms to make it easier for users to move their data from one service to another.
The bill will be modeled on Utah’s Digital Choice Act, which Gov. Spencer Cox (R) signed last year, creating first-in-the-nation data interoperability requirements for social media platforms.
“Utah is the template,” Lowenthal, the speaker pro tempore, told Bloomberg Government in an interview.
The lawmaker argues such a ...