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A top California lawmaker wants to bring Utah’s new data rules for social media consumers to his state, Andrew Oxford reports.
- 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.
- Lowenthal argues such a measure would give more power to social media users, ensuring they can control their digital identities and ...