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Utah Digital Choice Act - Data Portability Requirements

State Privacy📅 July 1, 2026📅125days

Description

Utah's Digital Choice Act takes effect, requiring social media companies to implement data portability and interoperability tools. This is the first US state law explicitly requiring social media platforms to build tools allowing users to transfer personal data (friends, connections, photos, likes, social graph) to other services.

Requirements

  • Build data portability tools for user data export
  • Implement interoperability mechanisms
  • Enable transfer of social graph data
  • Create user-facing data export interfaces
  • Document data portability and interoperability capabilities

Applicable To

Social Media Companies operating in UtahOnline Platforms with Utah users

Penalty Information

âš Enforcement details under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act; penalties determined by the Attorney General.