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Amending Utah's existing social media data portability law (set to take effect July 1, 2027), this bill updates the rules governing how social media platforms must handle user data when people move to a different platform. It requires platforms to provide users their data — including their connections, posts, and interactions — within five business days of a request, in a portable and usable format, and to maintain continuous, real-time data sharing with other platforms using publicly disclosed open technical standards, rather than the prior requirement that companies also offer competitors equivalent access to their internal interfaces. Users can choose to transfer all or just part of their data, and platforms must obtain a user's consent both when that user initiates a data transfer and before their comments or interactions are included as part of someone else's data transfer, with companies required to act on consent choices within five business days. The bill also shields companies from penalties for temporary interruptions in real-time data sharing if they made good-faith efforts to maintain and restore it, and clarifies that companies are not required to receive data through these interoperability systems.