South Carolina S 932: Digital Choice Act

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2025-2026 Bill 932 Text of Previous Version (Feb. 18, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 932

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ENACTING THE 
"DIGITAL CHOICE ACT" BY ADDING CHAPTER 31 TO TITLE 37 SO AS TO DEFINE TERMS 
RELATED TO DIGITAL CHOICE AND SOCIAL MEDIA; TO ESTABLISH THE FORMAT IN WHICH A 
SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICE MUST PROVIDE A CONSUMER WITH A COPY OF THE CONSUMER'S 
PERSONAL DATA UPON REQUEST; TO REQUIRE A SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY TO IMPLEMENT DATA 
INTEROPERABILITY INTERFACES; TO ESTABLISH REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA SHARING BETWEEN 
SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES; TO PROVIDE CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS 
CHAPTER; AND TO ALLOW CONSUMERS CERTAIN RIGHTS.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Title 37 of the S.C. Code is amended by adding:

CHAPTER 31

Digital Choice Act

 Section 
37-31-10. As used in this chapter:

 (1) 
"Administrator" means the officer appointed by the Commission on Consumer 
Affairs to administer this title.

 (2) 
"Controller" means a person doing business in the State who determines the 
purposes for which and the means by which personal data is processed, 
regardless of whether the person makes the determination alone or with others.

 (3) 
"Department" means the Department of Consumer Affairs.

 (4) 
"Open protocol" means a publicly available technical standard that:

 (a) 
enables interoperability and data exchange between social media services by 
providing a common data infrastructure where multiple social media services can 
access, contribute to, and synchronize a user's personal data;

 (b) 
is free from:

 (i) 
licensing fees; and

 (ii) 
patent restrictions; and

 (c) 
governs how social media services communicate and exchange data with each 
other.

 (5)(a) "Personal data" means information 
that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified individual or an 
identifiable individual. "Personal data" includes a user's social graph.

 (b) 
"Personal data" does not include deidentified data, aggregated data, or 
publicly available information.

 (6)(a) "Social graph" means data that 
represents a person's connections and interactions within a social media 
service.

 (b) 
"Social graph" includes:

 (i) 
the person's social connections with other users;

 (ii) 
content created by the person;

 (iii) 
the person's responses to other users' content, including comments, reactions, 
and shares;

 (iv) 
other users' responses to the person's content; and

 (v) 
metadata associated with any of the items described above.

 (c) 
"Social graph" does not include another user's or an entity's content and 
responses that have been designated private by those users and entities, 
including private messages.

 (7) 
"Social media company" means an entity that owns or operates a social media 
service.

 (8)(a) "Social media service" means a 
public website or application that:

 (i) 
displays content that is primarily generated by account holders and not by the 
social media company;

 (ii) 
permits an individual to register as an account holder and create a profile 
that is made visible to the general public or a set of other users defined by 
the account holder;

 (iii) 
connects account holders to allow users to interact socially with each other 
within the website or application; and

 (iv) 
allows account holders to post content viewable by other users.

 (b) 
"Social media service" does not include:

 (i) 
email;

 (ii) 
cloud storage; or

 (iii) 
document viewing, sharing, or collaboration services.

 (9) 
"User" means an individual located in the State who accesses or uses a social 
media service.

 Section 
37-31-20. If a consumer requests a copy of the 
consumer's personal data pursuant to Section 37-31-70, then a social media 
service shall provide the personal data, including the user's social graph, in 
a format that:

 (1) is 
portable, to the extent technically feasible;

 (2) is 
readily usable, to the extent practicable; and

 (3) 
allows the consumer to transmit the data to another controller without 
impediment if the controller processes the data by automated means.

 Section 
37-31-30. (A) A social media 
company shall implement a transparent, third-party-accessible interoperability 
interface or interfaces to allow users to choose to:

 (1) 
share a common set of the user's personal data between the social media 
services designated by the user; and

 (2) 
enable third parties to access content created by the user and to be notified 
when new or updated content is available, with the user's permission.

 (B) A 
social media company shall reasonably secure all personal data obtained through 
an interoperability interface.

 (C) To 
achieve interoperability under subsection (A), a social media c