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Senate passes revised data-portability bill after technical feasibility fight
Summary
After hours of technical questioning and a failed repeal substitute, the Senate passed a revised third substitute to House Bill 408 requiring social platforms to support user-selected data portability and interoperability, with safe-harbor provisions and a later effective date for implementation.
Senate members passed a third substitute to House Bill 408, a measure intended to expand social-media data portability and interoperability while building in protections for companies facing short-term technical failures.
Sponsor Senator Mikell introduced the bill as a follow-up to last year’s data-portability work, saying it “strengthens user control over social media” and allows users to “select and transfer portions of their social media data — pictures, posts, comments, connections — to another platform”…
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