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This bill mandates that social media companies with over one hundred million monthly active users, excluding those primarily focused on charity or religion, must provide users with their collected personal data upon request in a portable and usable format that allows for easy transfer to other social media services. Additionally, these companies must establish transparent, third-party-accessible "interoperability interfaces," which are publicly available technical standards free of licensing fees and patent restrictions, enabling users to share their personal data and content with other social media services, with user permission. The bill also requires social media companies to protect the privacy and security of data obtained through these interfaces and allows them to export a user's "social graph" (connections and interactions) in a machine-readable format, with options for users to select specific data types, date ranges, or continuous exports, while also permitting reasonable terms for data transfer to ensure privacy and security. The provisions of this act do not apply to entities owned or operated by religious organizations and do not compel social media services to import data or treat imported data differently from other user-generated content.

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https://sdlegislature.gov/#/Session/Bill/26364