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Committee adopts substitute and backs data-portability bill to let Utahns move social media data across platforms
Summary
The committee unanimously adopted a first substitute of HB 4 18, a data-sharing and portability measure, and gave it a favorable recommendation. Sponsors and multiple witnesses said the bill would let users transfer public social data and spur competition while preserving consumer-protection safeguards.
A House committee unanimously adopted a first substitute to HB 4 18 and gave the bill a favorable recommendation to the House floor. The legislation — described by supporters as the Digital Choice Act — would require platforms to allow users to port public social data and to enable interoperability among social apps, while preserving existing privacy safeguards for non-public data.
Sponsor Representative Feofia (listed in the transcript as the bill sponsor) framed the legislation as a consumer-rights and competition measure: "Utahans have the ability to take their data with them," the sponsor said, adding the bill "puts users back in the…
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